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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 know and what you don't.”

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

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

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

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

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

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”

“Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.”

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

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

“No one can take it away from you.”

“[on education] 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.”

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

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

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

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

“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."”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

“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.”