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


If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
- Andy McIntyre


While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
- Angela Schwindt


Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
- Aristotle


Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
- Anthony J Dangelo


My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.
- James Abram Garfield


Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham


Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
- Horace Mann


What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
- Henry David Thoreau


The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
- Isaac D Israeli


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 If We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
- Timothy Leary


If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
- Tom Robbins


The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
- Tryon Edwards


The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
- Wendell Phillips


Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
- Victor Hugo


Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo.


Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
- Horace Mann.


Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
- Hosea Ballou


He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- Victor Hugo


It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
- James Baldwin


Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry Brooks Adams


who must be taught to think.
- Anne Sullivan


The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
- Wendell Phillips


Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant


Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
- Anthony J Dangelo


Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- W B Yeats


A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
- James Baldwin


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