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Quotes- Words to the Wise...

You can teach your children everything they need to know to become lifelong learners.
"I educate, not by lessons, but by going about my business." (Socrates 470?-399 B.C.)
If you want a college degree, but missed out on the usual four-year-after-high-school time frame, you can still earn an accredited degree non-traditionally.
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!" (Derek Bok, former Harvard University President)
Knowledge is an investment: dividends can be pleasure, prosperity, and purpose.
"Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old." (Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773)
You can teach yourself anything you want to know.
"The true University of these days is a Collection of Books." (Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881)
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. (Plato 427?-347 B.C.)
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. (Samuel Johnson 1709-1784)
Learning makes a Man fit Company for himself. (Thomas Fuller 1654-1734)
We learn only from those whom we love. (Goethe 1749-1832)
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. (Ivan Illich 1926-)

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. (Mark Twain)
Quotes by Albert Einsten.