The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
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