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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter Drucker

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

Bunker Roy

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

George Washington Carver

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Jessamyn West

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

John Dewey

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

Daniel H. Pink

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

Malcolm Forbes

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 the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

William Glasser

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Kofi Annan

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Robert Kiyosaki

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

Patty Murray

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Havelock Ellis

A good education is another name for happiness.

Ann Plato

Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.

Arthur Lewis

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

B. F. Skinner

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Tony Buzan

Education is freedom.

Paulo Freire

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

John Locke

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.

Nita Ambani

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Laurence J. Peter

Education equals economic growth.

Julia Gillard

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

Ed Markey

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

Louis L'Amour

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.

Peter Tosh

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

Allan Bloom

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

Robert M. Hutchins

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

John Dewey

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Carl Rogers

I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.

Sebastian Thrun

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

Albert Einstein

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

George Eastman

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Taylor Caldwell

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

John Ruskin

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Marian Wright Edelman

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

Maria Montessori

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Horace Mann

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

John F. Kennedy

A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded.

Clint Smith

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Abraham Maslow

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

Nelson Mandela

Education is possibility set in motion.

Jill Biden

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Barbara Jordan

Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.

Ciara

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

Solomon Ortiz

Much of education can and should take place in schools and other formally designated community institutions. But the world beyond the schoolhouse is crucial to education, and both traditional and new media are more important than ever.

Howard Gardner

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Louis L'Amour

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

Plato

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Aristotle