Education

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“You can't be a writer if you're not a reader.”

“Man is what he reads.”

“A little learning is a dangerous thing.”

“Education has for its object the formation of character.”

“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.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.”

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”

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

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

“Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way to fight it.”

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

“The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.”

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

“Education is the foundation of national strength.”

“There is no such thing as a stupid question, unless it's the one you don't ask.”

“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”

“He who laughs most, learns best.”