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

Albert Einstein

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esar

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Booker T. Washington

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

Gail Godwin

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabindranath Tagore

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Plato

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

William Butler Yeats

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

Carl Rogers

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

Norman Cousins

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Blaise Pascal

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Walter Scott

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John F. Kennedy

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Alice Miller

He who laughs most, learns best.

John Cleese

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Barry Commoner

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Abigail Adams

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

Robert M. Hutchins

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Harvey S. Firestone

Read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Thomas Jefferson

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Aeschylus

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

Conrad Hall

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Alvin Toffler

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Ray Bradbury

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

William Bennett

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick the Great

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Oscar Hammerstein II

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln

It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.

Brian Sandoval

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Edward Everett

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Carl Sagan

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Noam Chomsky

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Joseph Addison

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

Ron Lewis

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Clifford Stoll

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

Aristotle

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

James Baldwin

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

John H. Johnson

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Dick Cheney

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Ralph Ellison

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

George Washington Carver

Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

M. Stanton Evans

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Milton Friedman

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

H. G. Wells

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.

Anatole France

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Will Rogers

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Desiderius Erasmus

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.

Parker Palmer

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Mark Twain

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Walt Disney

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

B. F. Skinner

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Chanakya

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

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

Nelson Mandela

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Zhuangzi

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Francis Bacon

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Leo Buscaglia

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Francis Bacon

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

Sydney J. Harris

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Oswald Chambers

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

Albert Einstein

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Robert Frost

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

John F. Kennedy

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Emma Goldman

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

A. A. Milne

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

John Locke

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Maimonides

It is better to learn late than never.

Publilius Syrus

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Paul Samuelson

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Loni Anderson

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

Isaac Asimov

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

James Thurber

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

George Santayana

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

Antonia Fraser

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Maria Montessori

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Edward Gibbon

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

Angela Merkel

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde