“Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.” ~~ Mohandas Gandhi
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” ~~ Sydney J. Harris
“We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.” ~~ Peter De Vries
“Purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” ~~ Will Durant
“When the student is ready the teacher will appear.” ~~ Lao Tzu
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. ” ~~ Maya Angelou
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” ~~ Plutarch
“Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” ~~ Claus Moser
“Spoon feeding, in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” ~~ E.M. Forster
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ~~ Jim Rohn
“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” ~~ Ray LeBlond
“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” ~~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
“They know enough who know how to learn.” ~~ Henry B. Adams
“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” ~~ Sam Levenson
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” ~~ Eric Hoffer
“Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.” ~~ W. B. Yeats
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