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Inspirational quotes on teaching and education

(reader's discretion advised)

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest)

It is no wrong to pay for learning; to help the ignorant to wisdom is always a merit. (Rudyard Kipling, Kim)

Non vitae sed scholae discimus. [we don't learn for the sake of life, but for the sake of school] (Seneca)

I've never let my schooling interfere with my education. (Mark Twain)

[...] si impara molto di piu' a vivere stando sepolti dentro un cimitero che seduti dentro una scuola [...] [one learns much more about life while buried in a graveyard than while sitting in a school] (Giovannino Guareschi, Mondo Piccolo, Cronaca Spicciola)

It's a true miracle that modern education hasn't yet completely smothered the curiosity necessary for scientific study. (Albert Einstein)

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (Shakespeare, Hamlet)

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. (Mark Twain)

He was just enough civilised to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manner. His education was not yet completed. He was an undergraduate. (Melville, Moby Dick)

Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest)

And, finally, Lewis Carroll:

The method employed I would gladly explain,

While I have it so clear in my head,

If I had but the time and you had but the brain—

But much yet remains to be said.

(from The Hunting of the sNark)

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