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“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.”

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.”

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.”

“Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.”

“The children are now working as if I did not exist.”

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”

“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.”

“Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.”

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...”

“Teach a child how to think, not what to think.”

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

“Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.”

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”

“Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of building better lives.”

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”