Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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