The famous sayings about what education is are as follows:

1. Education is a process of gradually discovering one’s ignorance. ——Durant

2. If anyone cannot educate himself, he cannot educate others. ——Suhomlinsky

3. The purpose of education is to enable young people to educate themselves throughout their lives. ——Hutchins

4. One percent of waste products in educational work will cause serious losses to the country. ——Makarenko

5. Education is to the soul what carving is to marble. ——Edison

6. Education is the country’s main defense force. ——Burke

7. Education is not about filling a bucket of water and lighting a fire. ——Yeats

8. Education does not consist in making people know what they do not know, but in doing what they have not done yet. ——Yuan Sijin

9. The root of education tastes bitter, and the fruit of education tastes sweet. ——Aristotle

10. If you build one more school, you can build one less prison. ——Hugo

11. For the people, the first is bread, and the second is education. ——Dandong

12. If you want to have a good society, you must first have good individuals; if you want to have a good individual, you must first have good education. ——Cai Yuanpei

13. If you give me a dozen babies, I guarantee that I can train them to be any type of person, or doctors, lawyers, businessmen and leaders, or even beggars and thieves. ——Watson

14. The form of plants is due to cultivation, and the behavior of people is due to education. ——Rousseau

15. A good teacher does not teach or teach students, but teaches students to learn. ——Tao Xingzhi