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1. "We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2. "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

Socrates

3. "Experience is a good school. But the fees are high."

Heinrich Heine

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4. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

George Bernard Shaw

5. "We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

6. "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

Albert Einstein

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7. "Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth."

Elbert Green Hubbard

8. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Mahatma Gandhi

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9. "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts"

10. "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

Albert Einstein

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11. "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

Rabindranath Tagore

12. "Me got no education, me got inspiration. If I was educated I'd be a damn fool."

Bob Marley

13. "In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer."

Oscar Wilde

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

Khalil Gibran

15. "Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."

Karl Kraus

16. "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

Socrates

17. "Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned."

Mark Twain, "Mark Twain's Notebook"

18. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

Benjamin Franklin

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19. "College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture."

Elbert Green Hubbard

20. "Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."

Karl Kraus

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21. "Those who trust us educate us."

George Eliot

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22. "Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages."

Michel de Montaigne

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23. "Five out of four people have problems with fractions."

Anon.

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

Oscar Wilde

25. "Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."

Bertrand Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy"

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