The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. --Robert M. Hutchins.

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. --Bill Beattie.

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

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. --Malcom Forbes.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. --Mark Twain.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. --Albert Einstein.

I have never let schooling interfere with my education. --Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens): 1835 - 1910.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. --Isacc Asimov.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. --Will Durant.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. --Plato (BC 427?-347?).

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. --W. B. Yeats.

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, On Education.

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 respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. --Wilson Mizner.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. --B F Skinner , american psychologist.

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