“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.” ~~ Edgar Allan Poe
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This collection of education quotes was inspired by the following quote from William Butler Yeats:
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” ~~ Henry David Thoreau
“He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.” ~~ M.C. Escher
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are far more than our abilities.” ~~ Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter, by J. K. Rowling in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”
“The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.” ~~ Anne Sullivan
“Where all think alike, no one thinks much.” ~~ Walter Lippman
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” ~~ Anne Frank
“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.” ~~ Anne Sullivan
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