Quotations on Education
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
-Will Durant
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
-Benjamin Franklin
The education of a man is completed only when he dies.
-Robert E. Lee
The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
-James Russell Lowell
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
-Malcolm Forbes
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
-Aristotle
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
-Anatole France
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
-Nelson Mandela
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
-Sydney J. Harris
Perhaps the most valuabe result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-Thomas H. Huxley
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
-Robert Frost

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