"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives"

Unknown, Source on Curiosity
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

Wilde, Oscar on Democracy
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"Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire."

Yeats, William Butler on Motivation
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"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one"

Forbes, Malcolm S. on Education
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"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic) on Education
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"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning."

Twain, Mark on Learning
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"Only the educated are free."

Epictetus on Education
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle on Education
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"The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence."

Wilde, Oscar on Education
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"According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively."

Einstein, Albert on Education
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"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."

Hutchins, Robert M. on Education
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"Once can survive everything nowadays, except death."

Wilde, Oscar on Death and Dying
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