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Effects

A teacher effects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

Empower

Education is not a form of entertainment, but a means of empowering people to take control of their lives.

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Empowerment

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

Aung San Suu Kyi 

Enthusiasm

Nothing is ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ethics

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

Exercise

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Jacques Martin Barzun