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- I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- W. B. Yeats
- Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918), The Education of Henry Adams
- Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), On Education
- The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
- The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
- Emerson
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