"Education should be the process of helping everyone discover his uniqueness."
-- Leo Buscaglia
"Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire."
-- William Butler Yeats
"Education by an means would smell as sweet, and maybe much sweeter, if it didn't begin with a quest for knowledge at all, but with a quest, as Zen would put it, for no knowledge."
-- Buddy in J.D. Salinger's Franny & Zooey.
"Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself."
-- Jean Piaget
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."
-- Wilson Mizner
"Education comes mostly in what we have unlearned."
-- Mark Twain
"You can tell you're being educated if your options are increasing."
-- Ralph Tyler
"Education is an admirable things, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
-- Oscar Wilde
"The giving of love is an education in itself."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
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