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“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers”
Kahlil Gibran
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
Jim Rohn
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
C.S. Lewis
“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.”
William Butler Yeats
“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”
Albert Einstein
“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”
Ezra Pound
“The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home”
William Temple Sr.
“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”
Alexandre Dumas Père
“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers”
Jean Piaget
“The education of the will is the object of our existence.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
