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“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”

“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.”

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”