Anatole France Education Quotations

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.