“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” ~~ Jane Austen
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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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“One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.” ~~ Wayne Gretzky
“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.” ~~ W.E.B. Du Bois
“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.” ~~ James Thurber
“When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.” ~~ W.E.B. Du Bois
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” ~~ W.E.B. Du Bois
“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.” ~~ Jane Austen
“A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.” ~~ W.E.B. Du Bois
