I Quotable Quotes

1 Study the following quotes⁽¹⁾ and tick ONE that rings especially true to you.

• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. —Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. —Nelson Mandela

• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. —Aristotle

• Education is the movement from darkness to light. —Allan Bloom

• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. —William Butler Yeats

• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. —Theodore Roosevelt

• Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. —Anthony J. D’Angelo

• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. —Chanakya

• Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. —Malcolm Forbes

• The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. —Diogenes

2 Get into groups and tell each other why it rings especially true to you.