“I did get a degree in special education.”– Clay Aiken Related Quotes “We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.”– Maria Montessori “We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.”– Jean-Jacques Rousseau “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”– Malcolm Forbes