"When students work with adults who continue to view themselves as learners who ask questions with which they themselves still grapple... students are more likely to demonstrate this characteristic themselves."—Barzun

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."—Carl Jung

"When I examined myself and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."—Albert Einstein

"When children know that uniqueness is respected, they are more likely to put theirs to use."—Dorothy Corkilee Briggs

"No Columbus, no Marco Polo has ever seen stranger and more fascinations and thoroughly absorbing sights than the child that leans to perceive, to taste, to smell, to touch, to hear and see, and to use his body, his senses, and his mind. No wonder that the child shows an insatiable curiosity. He has the whole world to discover."—Ernest Schactel

"The real magic wand is the child's own mind."—Jose Ortega Y Gasset

"Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world."—Ashley Montagu

"A mind stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions. "—Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."—William Ralph Inge

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."—B.F. Skinner

"Education will never become as expensive as ignorance."—Anonymous

"I find that the great thing in this world is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving."—Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Let what you love be what you do."—Rumi

"In a hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the type of house I lived in, or the kinds of clothes I wore, but the world may be much different because I was important in the life of a child."—Anonymous

"Remember, Information is not knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom; Wisdom is not truth; Truth is not beauty; Beauty is not love; Love is not music; Music is the best."—Frank Zappa

"The entire object of TRUE EDUCATION is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge; not merely pure, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice."—John Ruskin

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."—Emma Goldman

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."—Anatole France Thibault

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."—Gail Godwin

"I hear, I forget; I see, I learn; I do, I understand"—Gennady V. Oster

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."—Ellen Parr

"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group—there is less competition."—Indira Ghandi

"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."—Heinrich Heine

"The race for quality has no finish line."—Unknown

"And will you succeed? You will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)"—Dr. Seuss

"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."—Anatole France Thibault

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."—Alec Bourne

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."—Henry Adams

"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence."—Amos Bronson Alcott

"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching."—Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?"—Cicero

"What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn."—Henry Adams

"All people by nature desire to know."—Aristotle

"That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy."—Thomas Carlyle

"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one."—Lord Chesterfield

"Education is a controlling grace to the young, consolation to the old, wealth to the poor, and ornament to the rich."—Diogenes Laertius

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it."—Margaret Fuller

"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he was born."—Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."—Sir John Lubbock

"A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again."—Alexander Pope

"'Tis education forms the common mind:
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."—Alexander Pope

"I am glad to learn, in order that I may teach."—Seneca

"The greatest aim of education is not knowledge but action."—Herbert Spencer

"There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any valuable art."—Anthony Trollope

"I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion."—Alexander the Great

"Knowledge is power."—Francis Bacon

"Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old."—Lord Chesterfield

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to learn."—Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it."—Samuel Johnson

"To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."—Sir Isaac Newton

"There is nothing a person is more afraid of than discovering the vast amount he or she is capable of doing and becoming."—Soren Kierkegaard

"If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement."—Hsun-tzu

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."—Carl Rogers

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