Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
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.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.
What le Carré is so good at is unpicking something very specific about Englishness. That is almost part of why I think he wrote the novel. You can feel le Carré's anger that someone who has had the benefits of an English education and an English upbringing is using that privilege to basically do the worst things imaginable. There is an anger in the book about that.
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