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Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

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

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa E ducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet. -Lord Chesterfield.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.

More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.

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