1. "What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
2. [Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain, American writer
3. Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Will Durant, U.S. author and historian.
4. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist and astronomer
5. Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
John Ray, English naturalist
6. Education is not the filling a bucket but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, dramatist.
7. The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.
Herbert Spencer, English philosopher, political theorist, and sociological theorist.
8. Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, and inventor. Notebooks.
9. Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Albert Einstein
10. The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
11. Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Broughan
12. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates
13. Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself
Chinese Prover
14. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes