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The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.

—Saadi, 1258

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.

—Mao Zedong, 1936

Some men never recover from education.

—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.

—Malcolm X, 1964

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

—John Buchan, 1940

A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.

—Elbert Hubbard, 1911

The highest result of education is tolerance.

—Helen Keller, 1903

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

—Aristotle, c. 330 BC

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

—Wendell Berry, 1983

Education—a debt due from present to future generations.

—George Peabody, 1852

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

—Joseph Addison, 1711

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

—John Locke, 1695