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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mahatma Gandhi
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -Mark Twain
You can never be overdressed or overeducated. -Oscar Wilde
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. -Brigham Young
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. -St. Augustine
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. -Nelson Mandela
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. -Maya Angelou
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. -Walter Cronkite
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. -Robert Frost
The past has no power over the present moment. - Eckhart Tolle
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. -Margaret Mead
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. -Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. -Mark Twain
Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers. -Steven Spielberg
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. -Frank Zappa
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. -Martin Luther King Jr
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. -Aristotle
Marriage can wait, education cannot. -Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. -Robert Frost
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. -Plutarch
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. -C.S. Lewis
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. -Margaret Atwood
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. -Leonardo da Vinci
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. -C.S. Lewis
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. - E.M. Forster
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. -G.K. Chesterton
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -William Butler Yeats
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. -Malcolm X
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. -Socrates
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. - Isaac Asimov
Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be. - Heath L
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. -Sir Walter Scott
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. -Fran Lebowitz
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. -Aristotle
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. - Albert Einstein
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. -Henry Ford
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. -Phil Collins
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -Thomas Jefferson
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. -Theodore Roosevelt
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. -Jim Rohn
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. - Victor Hugo
Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational. -Charles Schultz
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. -Bill Watterson
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. -Chuck Palahniuk
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. - Mark Twain
O teach me how I should forget to think -William Shakespeare
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. -Baruch Spinoza
By seeking and blundering we learn. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education is a system of imposed ignorance. - Noam Chomsky
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. -Romain Rolland
Education is no substitute for intelligence. -Frank Herbert
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. -Bernard Branson
All I have learned, I learned from books. - Abraham Lincoln
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning. -Anton Chekhov
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained -Walt Disney
Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human. -Malala Yousafzai
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. -James Baldwin
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life. - Confucius
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. -Gandhi
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. - Mark Twain
A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm. -Jostein Gaarder
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -Robert Orben
“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -Jacob Bronowski
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught -Oscar Wilde
Play is the highest form of research. -Albert Einstein
nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - Mary Shelley
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. -Mark Twain
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. -Thomas Carlyle
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -Will Durant
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. -Confucius
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. -Martin Luther
Ignorance is the parent of fear. -Herman Melville
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - ―
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. -James Madison
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. -Abigail Adams
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. -H.G. Wells
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. - Plato
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women. -Malala Yousafzai
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved. -Mark Twain
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. -Jacques Barzun
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. -Jane Austen
The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know. -Harry S. Truman
The only things you learn are the things you tame -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. -Elizabeth Gaskell
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. - Hannah Arendt
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding. - Ezra Pound
The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr. - Anonymous
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? -Noam Chomsky
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. -Aristotle
Progress just means bad things happen faster. -Terry Pratchett
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. -John Taylor Gatto
People think of education as something they can finish. -Isaac Asimov
Only the educated are free. -Epictetus
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. -Ayn Rand
Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack. - Max Brooks
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. -Confucius
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves -Joseph Campbell
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. -Thomas Jefferson
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. - Ivan Illich
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it -Lawrence Krauss
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it -Lawrence Krauss
