An educated man without character and humility was more dangerous than a beast. If his education was detrimental to the welfare of the poor, he was a curse to society -Dr Ambedkar ~~ Knowledge is power. -Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) ~~ Whosoever neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future. -Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC) ~~ Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. -Chinese Proverb ~~ Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes ~~ If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. -Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850) ~~ If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894) ~~ Education is the greate engine for personal development -Nelson Mandela ~~ Knowledge is the foundation of a man's life. -Dr Ambedkar ~~ It is only the ignorant who despise education. -Publilius Syrus ~~ The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. -Plato ~~ Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -Will Durant(1885 - 1981) ~~ Education costs money, but then so does ignorance -Sir Moser Claus ~~ Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. -Marian Wright Edelman, U.S. author ~~ Education is the art of making man ethical. -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~~ Education must, then, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them. -Jerome S. Bruner, U.S. psychologist and educator ~~ Only the educated are free. -Epictetus ~~ It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne ~~ It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle(384 BC - 322 BC) ~~ A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) ~~ The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. -Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) ~~ Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. -James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881) ~~ The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. -Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) ~~ The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. -Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD) ~~ Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence. -Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) ~~ To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) ~~ When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. -Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) ~~ The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. -Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986) ~~ The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. -Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC) ~~ Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. -Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818) ~~ Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. -Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) ~~ Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. -John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) ~~ No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) ~~ Compassion is the basis of all morality. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) ~~ There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. -Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) ~~ Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. -Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) ~~ That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) ~~ Charity begins at home. -Terence (185 BC - 159 BC) ~~ Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) ~~