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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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

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

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don’t.

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. … What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.

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

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

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

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.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?