Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
B. F. Skinner
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Herbert Spencer
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
George Washington Carver
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Allan Bloom
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
John Dewey
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
Nelson Mandela
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Carl Roger
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Conrad Hall
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
Thomas Edison
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how to close they were to success when they gave up.
Jeanette Winterson
If people aren’t educated, they can’t question. If they can’t question, they can’t change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.
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