Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Teachers open minds, too.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The mediocre teacher tells; the good teacher explains; the superior teacher demonstrates; and the great teacher inspires.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

No one has a greater asset for fighting poverty than an educated brain and no one has a greater responsibility in its preservation than society as a whole.

We must teach our children that they are born free, equal, and worthy of respect—no matter what their race or gender may be.

11.Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

12.The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all—it's simply too difficult to handle—that it should simply leave monkey enough intelligence —to fix capital punishment without sitting on the jury.

13.A classroom with no books is like a body without soul

14.Education makes man fit for society by teaching him how best he can adapt himself in relation thereto

15.Teaching others wisdom does not necessarily mean imparting knowledge: it means inspiring others with your own enthusiasm and sense of wonder

16.I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught

17.The future belongs not only to those who are getting most out of their life already but also those who have sustainable vision how best each one can contribute so that everyone may thrive together

18.Love thy neighbor as thyself means put yourself in other's shoes before judging them

19.Teachers hold up mirrors to reality, but they also contain within themselves tints of rose or amber which nevertheless render more tolerable her own faults

20.Good teachers know how important it is not just what their students know, but how they feel about what they know