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

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

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”

“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 best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

“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.”

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.”

“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.”

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

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

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

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

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

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

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”