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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.

Learning is finding out what you already know -Richard Bach.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." Ropo Oguntimehin Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. -T.H. White.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.

College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. -Mark Twain.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.