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50 of the Best Quotes About Education
Learn as if you were to live forever.
Being an educator is not always the easiest job, but knowing you have made an impact on students’ lives can be so rewarding. Through all of the good times and bad, you continue to persevere and provide education to students of all backgrounds and abilities. We collected 50 of the best quotes about education to celebrate the best parts of teaching, learning, and the impact they have on the world.
Our Favorite Quotes About Education
“education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.” — malcolm x.
“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” — Elin Nordegren
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm Forbes
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” — Abigail Adams
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela
“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.
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over a person who can’t read.” — Mark Twain
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” — Unknown
“Education is the key to unlock a golden door of freedom.” — George Washington Carver
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” — John F. Kennedy
“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” — George Santayana
“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle
“Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life.” — W.E.B Du Bois
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” — Horace Mann
“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” — Steve Irwin
“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” — Sidney Hook
“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” — William Bennett
“Education is the key which will unlock the door of opportunity for you.” — Gordon B. Hinckley
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” — Maya Angelou
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” — Bill Nye
“The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Helen Keller
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle
“To teach is to learn twice.” — Joseph Joubert
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” — Confucius
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” — Mark Van Doren
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” — Margaret Mead
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” — Henry Ford
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Brooks Adams
“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buehner
“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” — Eliphas Levi
“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai
“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.” — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” — Isaac Asimov
“Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.” — Ezra Pound
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” — Marian Wright Edelman
“It is only the ignorant who despise education.” — Publilius Syrus
“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.” — Gwendolyn Brooks
“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” — William Morris
“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.” — Nancy Astor
“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.” — Norman Cousins
“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.” — John Ruskin
“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.” — Horace Mann
“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” — Daniel J. Boorstin
“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.” — Frederick William Robertson
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.” — Edward Everett
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100 Education Quotes That Will Inspire You To Keep Growing
By Maxime Lagacé
Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .
Education is vital.
You without education:
- More likely to become poor
- More likely to have diseases
- More likely to commit crimes
You with education:
- More likely to be happy
- More likely to make more money
- More likely to live longer
So, what’s the key to a better future?
Inspired by this, I have compiled 100 of the best education quotes I could find.
To inspire you and make you realize the value of proper education.
You’ll discover quotes by Einstein, Budha, Lao Tzu, and more.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. Bruce Lee
A dull mind gets bored easily. A curious mind expands forever. Maxime Lagacé
Play is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein ( This source says it’s probably not from Einstein)
A generation of auto-didacts, educated by the Internet and leveraged by technology, will eventually starve the industrial-education system. Naval Ravikant
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. Bob Talber
Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson
A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero
The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice. James Clear
The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller
Only the autodidacts are free. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams
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The Best Education Quotes
The more you make it easy for your kids, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning. Maxime Lagacé
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. United Negro College Fund
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. Chinese proverb
The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt
Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge . Naval Ravikant
Podcasts are free. Twitter is free. Wikipedia is free. YouTube is free. We are living in a golden age of self-education. Brian Feroldi ( Source )
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. Naval Ravikant
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. Socrates
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming
Education begins the gentleman, but reading , good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke
Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. Jim Rohn
The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. Bill Nye (upworthy.com)
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo
I am still learning. Michelangelo
Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Albert Einstein
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain
You can never be overdressed or overeducated. Oscar Wilde
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. James Dewar
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Augustine of Hippo
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln
My education was interrupted only by my schooling. Winston Churchill
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes
As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Short Education Quotes
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France
Responsibility educates. Wendell Phillips
A sign of good education: students don’t feel entitled. Maxime Lagacé
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Andy McIntyre
The world exists for the education of each man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Even a fool learns something once it hits him. Homer
Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus
Success is a poor teacher. Robert Kiyosaki
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes
There is no education like adversity. Benjamin Disraeli
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese proverb
When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou
Inspirational Education Quotes
If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. Nora Roberts
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino
When anything can be learned online, the barrier to education is simply motivation, curiosity, and persistence. Anthony Pompliano ( Source )
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt
The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness . It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant (Naval referred to the Internet and social medias like Twitter and LinkedIn)
Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it. Walter Isaacson
Every person with a smartphone and a pair of headphones has access to the kind of education that was once reserved for the sons of aristocracy. The Stoic Emperor
Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be. Rita Pierson
They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. Aristotle
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca
Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual. Jean Piaget
Funny And Surprising Education Sayings
You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day. Jay Mohr
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones
Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for. Jerry Seinfeld
Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime. Red Skelton
The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn’t stop until you get to school. Milton Berle 😂
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. Mark Twain
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. Mark Twain
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. Robin Williams
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Education Proverbs For Value-Packed Wisdom
When the student is ready, the master appears. Buddhist proverb
If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly. Buddhist proverb
Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen proverb
A single conversation with a wise man is better than 10 years of study. Chinese proverb
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese proverb
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. Chinese proverb
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Chinese proverb
Wise men may not be learned; learned men may not be wise. Chinese proverb
A stumble may prevent a fall. English proverb
Despise school and remain a fool. German proverb
All things good to know are difficult to learn. Greek proverb
An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught. Japanese proverb
Fall down seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. Japanese proverb
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. Latin proverb
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin H. Fischer
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. Eartha Kitt
Key Takeaways
- Want a great education? Never get bored asking questions.
- Want a great way to learn? Play! Don’t be so serious.
- Want to go far in life? Be an autodidact. You can learn anything on the Internet.
- Remember: answers are good, but questions are better.
- To know is good. To know what’s worth knowing is better.
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201 Inspiring Education Quotes for Students and Teachers
Education opens up the mind, expands it and allows you to improve your life in so many ways.
So this week – as schools are starting again – I’d like to share 201 of the most motivating and inspiring quotes on education.
I hope you’ll find them helpful no matter if you’re a student that needs a boost of motivation or if you’re a teacher of any kind that wants to inspire and make a change in the lives of your students.
And if you want more inspiration check out this collection of quotes on moving forward and this one with growth mindset quotes .
Education Quotes to Motivate Students
1. “A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
2. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein
3. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo
4. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain
5. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe
6. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” Jim Rohn
7. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X
8. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” Zig Ziglar
9. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Andy McIntyre
10. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.” Carl Rogers
11. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” Mark Twain
12. “Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. “Light! Give me light!” was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.” Helen Keller
13. “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” David M. Burns
14. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” Will Durant
15. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” Wayne Dyer
16. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” Tom Bodett
17. “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” Lloyd Alexander
18. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John R. Wooden
19. “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” Abraham Maslow
20. “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Ben Franklin
21. “If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” Ludwig Wittgenstein
22. “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” John Newton
23. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein
24. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” Maya Angelou
25. “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” Francis Bacon
26. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi
27. “Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” Jiddu Krishnamurti
28. “They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace.” Malala Yousafzai
29. “That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.” Seneca
30. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” Leonardo da Vinci
31. “Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.” James Dewar
32. “To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.” Epictetus
33. “Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” Chinese proverb
34. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” Bill Nye
35. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” Dorothy Parker
36. “Success is a poor teacher.” Robert Kiyosaki
37. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” Thomas Jefferson
38. “Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.” Robin Williams
39. “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.” Cicero
40. “Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.” Lee Iacocca
41. “Despise school and remain a fool.” German proverb
42. “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.” Bruce Lee
43. “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” Seneca
44. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” Nora Roberts
45. “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” Baruch Spinoza
46. “The learned man knows that he is ignorant.” Victor Hugo
47. “Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.” Euripides
48. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” Og Mandino
49. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” Albert Einstein
50. “Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. ” Pete Seeger
51. “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” Chinese Proverb
52. “The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow.” Naval Ravikant
53. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” Charles F. Kettering
54. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” Zig Ziglar
55. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” Jim Rohn
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56. “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” Clay P. Bedford
57. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry B Adams
58. “Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” John W. Gardner
59. “To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert
60. “Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” Chinese proverb
61. “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” Alfred Mercier
62. “Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” Erich Fromm
63. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” James Baldwin
64. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer
65. “Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” Roger Lewin
66. “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” Bill Beattie
67. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” Alexandra K. Trenfor
68. “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” G.K. Chesterton
69. “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” Lady Bird Johnson
70. “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” Chinese proverb
71. “ Nine tenths of education is encouragement .” Anatole France 72. “If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” Jim Rohn
73. “The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his “mistakes.” The more a child’s work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is . And the more a teacher removes them from the child’s work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.” Franz Cizek
74. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” Goethe
75. “Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.” Claus Moser
76. “I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.“ Steve Irwin
77. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela
78. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret Mead
79. “The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice.” James Clear
80. “Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
81. “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” Plato
82. “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” Jim Henson
83. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Aristotle
84. “I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” Stanley Kubrick
85. “The more you make it easy for your kids, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning.” Maxime Lagacé
86. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” Hellen Keller
87. “All learning has an emotional base.” Plato
88. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” C.S. Lewis
89. “If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly.” Buddhist proverb
90. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” Franklin P. Jones
91. “Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it.” Walter Isaacson
92. “The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
93. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” Diogenes
94. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” Plutarch
95. “People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.” Socrates
96. “By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.” Latin proverb
97. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
98. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” Bob Talber
99. “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” Chinese proverb
100. “Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” Plato
101. “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” Maya Angelou
102. “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it.” Arnold Glasow
Quotes on the Power of Education
103. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” Epictetus
104. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” Abraham Maslow
105. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle
106. “No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.” G.K. Chesterton
107. “When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.” Peter Drucker
108. “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” Gloria Steinem
109. “If a man is a fool, you don’t train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.” Desmond Bagley
110. “The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.” William R. Inge
111. “People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.” Bill Vaughan
112. “What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” Henry David Thoreau
113. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” Leo Buscaglia
114. “Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.” Edward De Bono
115. “I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.” Andy Rooney
116. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” Sydney J. Harris
117. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain
118. “What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.” Joseph Addison
119. “Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” Peter Brougham
120. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein
121. “Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” William Haley
122. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” Helen Keller
123. “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” Robert G. Ingersoll
124. “Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” Abraham Lincoln
125. “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” Buckminster Fuller
126. “Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” John Keats
127. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.“ Jim Rohn
128. “It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.” T.S. Eliot
129. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Aristotle
130. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” Robert Frost
131. “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.” John F. Kennedy
132. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Henry Ford
133.“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” Brigham Young
134. “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” Thomas Paine
135. “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
136. “When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world.” Shai Reshef
137. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” Aristotle
138. “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” Michel Legrand
139. “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” George Santayana
140. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” B.B. King
Smart and Insightful Education Quotes
In this section I’d like to share recent findings that have helped me see things in a new way when it comes to education.
I hope that these timeless thoughts will help to open up new perspectives for you too.
141. “Everything is a learning process: Any time you fall over, it’s just teaching you to stand up the next time.” Joel Edgerton
142. “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you have understood all your life, but in a new way.” Doris Lessing
143. “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” Thomas Jefferson
144. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius
145. “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Peter Drucker
146. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” Chanakya
147. “A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.” Andy Hargreaves
148. “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss
149. “The ability to read, write, and analyze; the confidence to stand up and demand justice and equality; the qualifications and connections to get your foot in the door and take your seat at the table — all of that starts with education.” Michelle Obama
150. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” Og Mandino
151. “Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.” George Weah
152. “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” Mark Twain
153. “What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.” Chuck Grassley
154. “Life is an open book test. Learning how to learn is your most valuable skill in the online world.” Marc Cuban
155. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” Roy T. Bennett
156. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” Albert Einstein
157. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey
158. “It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.” Agnes Repplierg
159. “You cannot dream of becoming something you do not know about. You have to learn to dream big. Education exposes you to what the world has to offer, to the possibilities open to you.” Sonia Sotomayor
160. “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” Walter Cronkite
161. “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” Brigham Young
162. “Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.” Claude Bernard
163. “The best education is not given to students; it is drawn out of them.” Gerald Belcher
164. “Life long learners will always be ahead of the people standing still, the people who haven’t learned many new things in the past 10 years. So keep on learning because that makes it easier to advance in your career, remedy relationship issues and to grow older in a smart way. Plus, it most often makes life more exciting.” Rip Miller
165. “Do not conform your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.” Hebrew Proverb
166. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
167. “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” Kofi Annan
168. “All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.” Denis Waitley
169. “In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.” Barack Obama
170. “It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.” Cormac McCarthy
171. “Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” John Holt
172. “They know enough who know how to learn.” Henry Adams
173. “You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Short Quotes About Education
Finally, a few handfuls of short, sharp and punchy education quotes. The ones that cut right to the point.
I hope you’ll find something that refuels or relights your motivation here.
174. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.“ Malcolm Forbes
175. “Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities.” Nelson Mandela
176. “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” Muriel Spark
177. “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” George Evans
178. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats
179. “Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.” Dr. W. Edwards Deming
180. “By seeking and blundering we learn.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
181. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” Herbert Spencer
182. “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” John Hersey
183. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.” Brian Tracy
184. “Education is the great engine to personal development.” Nelson Mandela
185. “All real education is the architecture of the soul.” William Bennett
186. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” Albert Einstein
187. “The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth” Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
188. “Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life.” W.E.B Du Bois
189. “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” Alexander the Great
190. “All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” Martin Fisher
191. “We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.” Peter De Vries
192. “I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.” Steven Wright
193. “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” William S. Burroughs
194. “Learning without thought is a labor lost, thought without learning is perilous.” Confucius
195. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” Socrates
196. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai
197. “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.“ Albert Einstein
198. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” Edward Everett
199. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver
200. “A good education is a foundation for a better future.” Elizabeth Warren
201. “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” Conrad Hall
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102 Quintessential Quotes About Education
September 13, 2023 // by Lauren Du Plessis
Education is one of the many life forces of our generation! Without it, we’d run into a multitude of problems. Because our students don’t always see it this way, it’s important to take the time to reignite their passion for learning. To help you achieve this, we’ve collected 102 quintessential quotes about education. Decorate your classroom with them, consider implementing a quote of the day into your morning routine, or even print and laminate them to distribute amongst your students at the start of the year.
1. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
2. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain
3. “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
4. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok
5. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
6. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
7. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
8. “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.
9. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” – Abigail Adams
10. “Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.” – Shakuntala Devi
11. “The best education is not given to students; it is drawn out of them.” – Gerald Belcher
12. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
13. “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom.
14. “The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.” – Jean Piaget
15. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
16. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
17. “I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein
18. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris
19. “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” – Colleen Wilcox
20. “Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.” – Christine Gregoire
21. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
22. “The purpose of education is to an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
23. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
24. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
25. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
26. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” – Carl Rogers
27. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams
28. “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” – Brigham Young
29. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” – Socrates
30. “Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.” – William Allin
31. “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” – Bill Beattie
32. “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein
33. “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William S. Burroughs
34. “Education is not received. It is achieved.” – Albert Einstein
35. “Intelligence plus character – that is the true goal of education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
36. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
37. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
38. “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.” – Mortimer Adler
39. “Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
40. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
41. “Education is not about filling a pail, but about lighting a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
42. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver
43. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
44. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein
45. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
46. “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” – Theodore Roosevelt
47. “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
48. “The future belongs to the educated.” – Barack Obama
49. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
50. “Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.” – Shakuntala Devi
51. “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln
52. “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.” – Plato
53. “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or in the same way.” – George Evans
54. “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry
55. “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” – G.K. Chesterton
56. “Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.” – Abraham Lincoln
57. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” – Helen Keller
58. “The learning process continues until the day you die.” – Kirk Douglas
59. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde
60. “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.” – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
61. “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom
62. “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” – Mark Twain
63. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
64. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” – Edward Everett
65. “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” – Robert Maynard Hutchins
66. “In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.” – Baba Dioum
67. “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think.” – James Beattie
68. “Education is the most effective way to break out of the poverty cycle.” – Charles B. Rangel
69. “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” – G.K. Chesterton
70. “Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan
71. “Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.” – Adelaide Hoodless
72. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
73. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia
74. “Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.” – Christine Gregoire
75. “Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.” – John Ruskin
76. “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” – Mark Twain
77. “I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.” – Oprah Winfrey
78. “Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus
79. “In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.” – William Allen White
80. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” – Helen Keller
81. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
82. “Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” – Plato
83. “Education is the art of making man ethical.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
84. “The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” – Robert M. Hutchins
85. “Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.” – Maria Montessori
86. “The education of a man is never completed until he dies.” – Robert E. Lee
87. “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” – Muriel Spark
88. “Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
89. “Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects.” – Robert M. Hutchins
90. “Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.” – John Adams
91. “Education is not a pail to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.” – Plutarch
92 . “Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.” – John Locke
93. “The future of the world is in my classroom today.” – Ivan Welton Fitzwater
94. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
95. “The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.” – Wendell Phillips
96. “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein
97. “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” – Theodore Roosevelt
98. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant
99. “The best education I have ever received was through travel.” – Lisa Ling
100. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” – Abraham Maslow
101. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya
102. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
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Whether you’re a teacher or a student, a new school year is an exciting time. These education quotes will get you ready to enjoy teaching and learning anytime.
School pushes us out of our comfort zone, teaches us to dream big, and encourages us to achieve our potential.
In celebration of all the amazing things that education, we’ve put together a list of the best quotes about school, learning, and teaching.
So whether you’re a parent, student, or teacher – we’ve got you covered as you get ready for another year of school.
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Top 10 Education Quotes
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Oprah Winfrey
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration . Bill Frist
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Herbert Spencer
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett
Quotes about Education
Whether you’re at the beginning of a new year or semester of learning, or aren’t quite sure where your knowledge will take you next – look no further than these inspiring education quotes.
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Ernest Dimnet
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes
Only the educated are free. Epictetus
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. Plato
It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling. Murray N. Rothbard
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin Fisher
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. Shakuntala Devi
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking
Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. George Carlin
Even the genius asks questions. Tupac Shakur
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers
Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do. Bruce Lee
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. Lewis
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein
Development is a series of rebirths. Maria Montessori
What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. Buddha
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. Mark Twain
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. W.B. Yeats
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. Sir Claus Moser
Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle
They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. Muriel Spark
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George Washington Carver
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller
Learning Quotes
Live as if you will die tomorrow. Learn as if you will live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
The learning process continues until the day you die. Kirk Douglas
The doer alone learneth. Friedrich Nietzsche
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln
Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first. Ray Congdon
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. Wendell Berry
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. Voltaire
Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. Dr. W. Edwards Deming
Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go! Dr. Seuss
Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work. William Crawford
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb
The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. B.B. King
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid. G.K. Chesterton
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Henry Ford
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. Thomas Szasz
Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. Harry S. Truman
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. Claude Bernard
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. Vernon Howard
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin
A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world. Eric Hoffer
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. Claude Bernard
Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman
I’m still learning. Michelangelo
The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. Michel Legrand
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle
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School Quotes
A new desk, a handful of freshly sharpened pencils, the first page of a new workbook… there are no days quite like school days!
From Kindergarten to college, celebrate all stages of education and their role in shaping our futures with these great school quotes.
In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. Tom Bodett
The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school. Terrance Deal
We don’t stop going to school when we graduate . Carol Burnett
If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work. Richard Livingstone
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. Harold Howe
School made us ‘literate’ but did not teach us to read for pleasure. Ambeth Ocampo
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E.M. Forster
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. Robert T. Kiosaki
The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy
Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. Dr. Seuss
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. Chuck Grassley
Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials is like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing. Madeline Hunter
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. Agnes Repplierg
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. Og Mandino
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain
School is a place that provides education, and education is the key to life. Unknown
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. John Taylor Gatto
I’m not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. Emma Watson
School prepares you for the real world… which also bites. Jim Benton
There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. Ray Bradbury
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book for everything. Robert Frost
Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. George Evans
They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.Margaret Atwood
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. Roy T. Bennett
The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. Stanley Kubrick
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year. Henry Ford
Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else. James E. Faust
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun. Josephine Baker
Education begins at home . You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him. Geoffrey Holder
Teaching Quotes
Teachers have the amazing power of being able to inspire young minds.
Celebrate those who help children and young people achieve their potential with these quotes about teachers and teaching.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage . A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential. John C. Maxwell
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world. Malala Yousafzai
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson. John Henrik Clarke
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Cicero
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C.S. Lewis
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun
A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. Ruth Beechick
Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. John Holt
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. Frank Herbert
The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor
Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Francis Keppel
If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge. Brad Sherman
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. Joseph Campbell
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. Solomon Ortiz
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers
We hope you’re feeling inspired and excited to go back to school!
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This is the best quote for education The quote which i love in this list is “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
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The 85 Best Quotes about Education
Education truly is a privilege. With more than 70 million children who have no access to primary education, it becomes obvious that not all are guaranteed the right to education. As a result, more than 700 million adults around the world cannot read or write. Consequently, they lack the basic principles that could help them to improve their living conditions. What happens when you deprive millions of their right to education can be seen all around the world. Poverty, trafficking, slavery, and diseases that could be avoided are often the results of a lack of education. Similarly, individuals who are illiterate are more likely to be susceptible to victimization. Many of us think of education as a right. However, when keeping the above figures in mind, it becomes clear that it is more than a right; it’s a privilege. At the same time, education does not stop once you’ve graduated. Instead, learning, growing, and educating yourself is a lifelong process. It will never stop. To celebrate the great privilege of education, we’ve created the following collection of the best quotes about education.
Admittedly, going to school is not always a pleasurable thing. There may be teachers and later on perhaps even professors who do their best to make your life a pain. However, these bad examples must never be allowed to negatively influence your opinion about education.
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain
If it’s done right, education inspires young minds to envision a brighter future. Not only that but it also gives them the necessary tools and skills to confidently make that vision a reality.
The following quotes about education will remind you what a great gift it is.
With the right education and perhaps even the right teacher or guide on your side, anything is possible. Education empowers the youth and motivates them to strive to reach their full potential. Even more so, it gives young individuals the necessary skill set to address the challenges and problems of the future.
When you read through the following collection of quotes about education, you’ll be reminded how precious education is. In fact, the following authors found beautifully eloquent words to express their great appreciation of education. At the same time, these statements will make you aware how important it is to ensure the privilege of education for generations to come.
Here are these inspiring quotes about education:
“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 mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” Plutarch
“Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.” Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret Mead
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” Aristotle
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” Walter Cronkite
“True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.” David O. McKay
“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.” H.L. Mencken
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” Alexander the Great
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” Thomas Paine
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” G.K. Chesterton
“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.” Jean Piaget
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” C.S. Lewis
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” Oscar Wilde
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” Isaac Asimov
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Henry Ford
“What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.” Paulo Coelho
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Aristotle
“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves” Joseph Campbell
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” Plato
“Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.” Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” C.S. Lewis
“Only the educated are free.” Epictetus
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X
“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. „ Jane Austen
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.” Charlotte Brontë
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.” Albert Einstein
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.” Samuel Johnson
“[Learning] is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” T.H. White
“Education isn’t for getting a job. It’s about developing yourself as a human being.” Liz Berry
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” Albert Einstein
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” Herbert Spencer
“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.” B.F. Skinner
“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.” Walter Scott
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.” Samuel Johnson
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” Charles William Eliot
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” W.B. Yeats
“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fills you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.” Robert Frost
“Change is the end result of all true learning.” Leo Buscaglia
“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it” Nicholas Sparks
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” Terry Pratchett
“My favourite definition of an intellectual: ‘Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.” Arthur C. Clarke
“Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.” Jonathan Hennessey
“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” Brigham Young
“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.” Phil Collins
“Marriage can wait, education cannot.” Khaled Hosseini
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” Sydney J. Harris
“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.” Charles Dickens
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Albert Einstein
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” Jim Rohn
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” Stanley Kubrick
“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” Thomas A. Edison
“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.” Ray Bradbury
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein
“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.” John Taylor Gatto
“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. „ Pete Seeger
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Robert Orben
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” Robert Frost
“You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!” Bill Watterson
“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.” Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot open a book without learning something.” Confucius
“To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.” Roy T. Bennett
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” Aristotle
“In school, we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.” Robert T. Kiyosaki
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” Theodore Roosevelt
“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” Tom Bodett
“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?” George Washington
“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.” Plato
“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
“To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” Muriel Spark
“Wisdom… comes not from age, but from education and learning.” Anton Chekhov
“It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” Albert Einstein
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” Richard Feynman
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” Mark Twain
“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.” Peter F. Drucker
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” Brigham Young
I hope you enjoyed this collection of some of the most beautiful quotes about education.
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