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The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.

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.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Only the educated are free.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.