1. “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” Mary McLeod Bethune
2. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Aristotle
3. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” Albert Einstein
4. “The highest result of education is tolerance” Helen Keller
5. “Perhaps most significant of all classrooms is the classroom of the home. It is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed. Our homes are the laboratories of our lives. What we do there determines the course of our lives when we leave home. Dr. Stuart E. Rosenberg wrote in his book The Road to Confidence, ‘Despite all new inventions and modern designs, fads and fetishes, no one has yet invented, or will ever invent, a satisfying substitute for one’s own family.’ ” Thomas Monson
6. “I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.” Chinese Proverb
7. “The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein
8. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great.” Mark Twain
9. “It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.” Jane Hamilton
10. “Learning without though is labor lost; though without learning is perilous.” Confucious
11. “Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” Abraham Lincoln
12. “There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.” Thomas Jefferson
13. “Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” Plato
14. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver
15. “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” Chinese Proverb
16. “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” Claus Moser
17. “The liberally educated person is the one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers not because he is obstinate but becasue he knows others worthy of consideration.” Allan Bloom
18. “Education is the best provision for old age.” Aristotle
19. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Gandhi
20. “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack & ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing & searching can be promoted by means of coercion & a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of pre of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly.” Albert Einstein
21. “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” Eartha Kitt
22. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
23. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a though without accepting it.” Aristotle
24. “Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.” William H Gray III
25. “Learning is not a spectator sport.” Anonymous
26. “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” Ray LeBlond
27. “If I were asked…to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.” Alexis de Tocqueville