Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.
For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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