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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.”
― Charles Schultz

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!”
― Bill Watterson

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
― Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook

“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
― Henry Ford

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
― Jim Rohn

“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
― Stanley Kubrick

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.”
― Albert Einstein

“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”
― Martha Graham

“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”
― Frank Zappa

“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”
― Confucius

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.”
― Brigham Young

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
― Robert Orben