EDUCATION

Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes

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

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 do know and what you don't.
- Anatole France

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

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
- Clive James

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
- Diogenes Laertius

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
- Jim Rohn

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
- Mary Pettibone Poole

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
- Herbert Spencer

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