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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

It’s time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody’s role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It’s no surprise that our school system doesn’t improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

I’d like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it’s constantly being cut.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.

The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as ‘free education’ is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education – just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office – and cannot possibly be separated from political control.

They say that we are better educated than our parents’ generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

For years, the Democrats have controlled the inner cities; some up to 100 years; some over 100 years; unbroken. I say to the African American community and to the Hispanic community: What the hell do you have to lose? I will fix it. We will make them good. We’ll make them safe. We’ll bring back jobs. We’ll create good, good schools and education.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.