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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

“No one can take it away from you.”

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

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

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

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

“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.”

“The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.”

“Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”

“I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.”

“I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.”