“Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.”

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American motivational speaker 1930–2009

Vladimer Botsvadze

“Education doesn't make you smarter.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer

“It's all true that education will make you intelligent. But it can't automatically make you a good person too.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Education may not make a change of your life.
It makes you ponder over at least.”

Kazeronnie Mak

“The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.”

Gilbert Highet (1906–1978) British academic

The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976)

“Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society… But for me, education means making creators… You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.”

Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & academic

Conversations with Jean Piaget (1980) by Jean Claude Bringuier

“We're here to talk about education. But I want to say something before that…. You know, education, if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.”

John F. Kerry (1943) politician from the United States

Speech to California students, 31 October 2006 <br class="br">Quoted in Kerry's 'Botched' Joke Backfires, CBS News/Associated Press, 2006-11-01, 2006-11-01 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/01/politics/main2141613.shtml,

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

Daily Telegram #1597, Will Rogers Finds Larnin' Spoils One For Real Work (4 September 1931)
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“And I says back to him, “Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,” and he says back to me, “I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,” and I said, “Why?” and he says to me, “Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.””

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 1.

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.”

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