Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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