If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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