Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
"Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self."
Unfortunately, we don't educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
“To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.”
The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.
When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.
When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.
There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
“There are two types of education… One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.”
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Energy is eternal delight.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
I cannot live without books.