Ben Sweetland:
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Barbara Tuchman:
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.

Arthur Koestler:
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Benjamin Jowett:
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Finley Peter Dunne:
You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.

Bill Beattie:
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Dean William R. Inge:
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

Epictetus:
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Eric Hoffer:
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Ethel Barrymore:
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

George Peabody:
Education: a debt due from present to future generations.

George Santayana:
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Gloria Steinem:
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Maria Mitchell:
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Goethe:
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Helen Keller:
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.

Henry Steele Commager:
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Ward Beecher:
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

James Baldwin:
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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