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“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

“No one can take it away from you.”

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”

“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."”

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”

“In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“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.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”

“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.”

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

“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.”