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“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.”
― Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

“Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed