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“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
― Anton Chekhov

“All of life is a constant education.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Wisdom Of Eleanor Roosevelt

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
― Malcolm S. Forbes

“It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”
― Claude Bernard

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
― Gandhi

“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”
― Diane Arbus, Revelations

“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ”
― Helen Keller

“Play is the highest form of research.”
― Albert Einstein

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

“When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.”
― William Glasser

“The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”
― John Dewey

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.”
― Henri Frederic Amiel

“Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.”
― Maya Angelou

“The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it”
― Lawrence Krauss

“True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.”
― David O. McKay

“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves”
― Joseph Campbell

“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”
― B.F. Skinner

“What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Pieces of White Shell

“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”
― Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

“Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.”
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.”
― Sharon Salzberg, The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion