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14 Quotes from Einstein on Education (with Sources)

On Schooling:   ‘’It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. ’’  [quoted in The New York Times , March 13 1949, p. 34].

On Imagination: ‘ ’Knowledge is limited.  Imagination encircles the world. ’’ [quoted in “What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck” Saturday Evening Post , October 26th, 1929, p. 11].

On Love of Learning : ’I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious .’’ [quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe , p. 548].

On Creativity: ‘’It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.’ ‘ [quoted in Alice Calaprice, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein , p. 100].

On Play : “The desire to arrive finally at logically connected concepts is the emotional basis of a vague play with basic ideas. . . . . this combinatory or associative play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.”   [quoted in Jacques Hadamard, An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field , Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1945, p. 142].

On Curiosity : “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. Never lose a holy curiosity.’’  [quoted in, ‘’Death of a Genius–Old Man’s Advice to Youth: ‘Never Lose a Holy Curiosity,’’ Life Magazine 38, no. 18, (May 2, 1955): p. 64].

On Wonder: ”The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffled-out candle.”  [quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe , p. 387].

On Individuality:   ”The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. . .”   [quoted in Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions , Broadway Books, p. 64].

On Neurodiversity : His son, Albert Einstein Jr. wrote: ” [Einstein] was . . . considered backward by his teachers. He told me that his teachers reported to his father that he was mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams .” [quoted in Victor Goertzel and Mildred G. Goertzel, Cradles of Eminence, p. 248.

On Compassion:   ‘’ Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty .’’  [quoted in Walter Sullivan, ‘’The Einstein Papers: A Man of Many Parts,’’ The New York Times , March 29, 1972, p. 20].

On Care for Nature :  ” In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence .”  [quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein , p. 32].

On Tolerance :  ‘’ Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. ’’ [quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein , p. 297].

On Beauty:   ‘’ To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly; this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man .”  [quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe , p. 387].

On Education:   ‘’ The wit was not wrong who defined education in this way: ‘Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school .’’ [quoted in Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions , p. 63].

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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)

Part 2. Education Quotes That Are…

The most famous education quotes.

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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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Hope you enjoyed these beautiful education quotes. If you did, please share them with a friend today!

What’s your favorite education quote? And remember: words can transform your life, if you find the right ones.

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70 of Our Favorite Quotes About Reading

Never underestimate the power of a good book.

Who doesn’t love getting lost in a book? Reading not only opens up doors and inspires, it also serves as a timeless education for many. Using quotes about reading around your classroom can encourage students to start a new book series or learn something new. Check out this list of 70 of our favorite quotes about reading!

Our Favorite Quotes About Reading

“it was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.” — fyodor dostoyevsky.

“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” — Jim Rohn

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” — Fran Lebowitz

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” — Mortimer J. Adler

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” — Diane Duane

“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” — Malorie Blackman

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King

“Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honoré de Balzac

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” — Louis L’Amour

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” — Walt Disney

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” — Frederick Douglass

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” — Garrison Keillor

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” — Victor Hugo

“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” — Emma Thompson

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” — Bill Watterson

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” — J.K. Rowling

“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” — Horace Mann

“Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.” — Carl Sagan

“Reading for me is spending time with a friend.” — Gary Paulsen

“We read to know we’re not alone.” — William Nicholson

“Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” — Lloyd Alexander

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.” — Virginia Woolf

“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.” — Jeanette Winterson

“What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Richard Steele

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” — Lisa See

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” — Rene Descartes

“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges

“And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.” — Kate DiCamillo

“The world is shaped by two things—stories told and the memories they leave behind.” — Vera Nazarian

“Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.” — Mason Cooley

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?” — Christopher Paolini

“Putting down a good book can almost be an impossible act to do.” —Unknown

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” — George R.R. Martin

“Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.” — Orhan Pamuk

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.” — Ben Okri

“Reading—the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.” — William Styron

“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.” — Pam Allyn

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” — W. Fusselman

“I am a part of everything that I have read.” —Unknown

“A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.” — Louis L’Amour

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.” — John Cheever

“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”— William Lyon Phelps

“Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.” — Lawrence Clark Powell

“The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.” — Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.” — William Cobbett

“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

“As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.” — Seamus Heaney

“While the spoken word can travel faster, you can’t take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.” — Kingman Brewster Jr.

“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

“There isn’t any distinction between a reader and a writer—reading is so much a part of it.” — Dermot Healy

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R.R. Martin

“The newspaper fits the reader’s program while the listener must fit the broadcaster’s program.” — Kingman Brewster Jr.

“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.” — Dean Acheson

“If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.” — Sarah Fielding

“A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.” — Stendhal

“Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists …” — Stephen King

“Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said.” — Umberto Eco

“Good writers have two things in common: They prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it wholeheartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemnly or gravely. … He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.” — C.S. Lewis

“Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.” — L. Frank Baum

“Writing is not like painting where you add. … Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.” — Elie Wiesel

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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