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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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Part 2 Education Quotes That ARE Famous Short Inspirational Funny Proverbs
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Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.
There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.
Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.
The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.
Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.
IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life.
Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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.
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Education Quotes for Teachers and Students
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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
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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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90 Inspirational and Powerful Education Quotes
Education is perhaps one of the most important ingredients to a happy, successful, and constructive life. In fact, having access to a good education during childhood and your early adulthood can make a real difference in your later life. However, not all education systems are equally good. It is saddening to see how miserable and uninterested teachers (or even entirely corrupted systems) do nothing but close the minds of young children. No matter if you’re a teacher seeking to reignite your passion for teaching or a student struggling with subjects that are far from reality, quotes about education can help you to quickly re-inspire your passion for education. Therefore, you can find a collection of powerfully inspirational education quotes in the following. Enjoy these beautiful and magnificent quotes about education.
In the ideal case, education and educators inspire pupils and students to open and expand their minds. Even more importantly, a good education system skillfully prepares the young children for life. Yet, math, biology, and physics alone won’t prepare you for the challenges of life.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela
In many cases, however, education is far from what it should actually be. Instead, it is nothing but soul crushing to young spirits.
In the following, you can find our collection of education quotes.
Still, there are many exceptional teachers who wholeheartedly have the best interest of their pupils and students in mind. These are to teachers who encourage their students to think for themselves and to become independent and responsible individuals. Even more so, such teachers may even encourage you to pursue your dreams instead of telling you how unrealistic they are. In the ideal case, these are the exceptional individuals that convince you that you can accomplish all your dreams – if you are willing to do whatever it takes.
What is so amazingly powerful about education quotes is that they stem from the hands of some of the wisest and most brilliant individuals that have ever walked on earth. As such, the following quotes about education are packed with wife lessons and inspiring wisdom. Not only will such quotes make you think deeply about education but they will also motivate you to continue the process of learning something new each day.
Let’s have a look at these fantastic education quotes:
“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.“ Steve Irwin
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.“ Marian Wright Edelman
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.“ Mark Twain
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.“ Benjamin Franklin
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.“ Maimonides
“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity.“ Cesar Chavez
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.“ Albert Einstein
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.“ Malcolm Forbes
“Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.“ W. E. B. Du Bois
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.“ Jim Rohn
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” Epictetus
„Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.“ Malcolm X
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.“ Leonardo da Vinci
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.“ Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.“ Albert Einstein
“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
“To teach is to learn twice.“ Joseph Joubert
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.“ G.K. Chesterton
“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
“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
“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
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.“ Buckminster Fuller
“A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.“ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“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
“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.“ Peter Drucker
“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.“ Chanakya
“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
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.“ Aristotle
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.“ C. S. Lewis
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.“ Francis Bacon
“One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I’ve spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I’ve always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.“ Condoleezza Rice
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.“ Theodore Roosevelt
“No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.“ Bobby Scott
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.“ Calvin Coolidge
“The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.“ Leo Buscaglia
“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.“ John Locke
“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
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.“ Herbert Spencer
“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.“ Henry David Thoreau
“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
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.“ Will Durant
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.“ Victor Hugo
“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
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.“ James Baldwin
“I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.“ Andy Rooney
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.“ Gloria Steinem
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.“ Henry B. Adams
“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age.“ Erich Fromm
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.“ Andy McIntyre
“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.“ Chinese proverb
“People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.“ Bill Vaughan
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.“ B.B. King
“Men and women must be educated, to a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.“ Mary Wollstonecraft
“The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new – and sometimes unexpected – directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.“ Drew Gilpin Faust
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.“ Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Education is all a matter of building bridges.“ Ralph Ellison
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.“ John Dewey
“The mere imparting of information is not education.“ Carter G. Woodson
“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.“ Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.“ Solomon Ortiz
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.“ B. F. Skinner
“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.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.“ Aristotle
“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
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.“ Goethe
“Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.“ Peter Brougham
“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.“ Anatole France
“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
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.“ Albert Schweitzer
“You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.“ Malcolm X
“The highest result of education is tolerance.“ Helen Keller
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn… and change.“ Carl Rogers
“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
“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
“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.“ George Santayana
“What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.“ Joseph Addison
“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.“ Harvey S. Firestone
“All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.“ Malala Yousafzai
“Change is the end result of all true learning.“ Leo Buscaglia
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.“ John F. Kennedy
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.“ Kofi Annan
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.“ George Washington Carver
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.“ Aristotle
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.“ Robert G. Ingersoll
“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.“ Helen Keller
“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
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.“ Albert Einstein
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.“ Sydney J. Harris
“The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class because they do not realize how little they know.“ William R. Inge
“Your library is your paradise.“ Desiderius Erasmus
“For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.“ Plato
“The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.“ George Eastman
“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.“ Conrad Hall
I hope you enjoyed reading this collection of education quotes.
Stay victorious!
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Thanks for this collection, it’s pretty helpful.
Hi Steve, Education not only teaches what is in the books, it helps in evolving a person into a much wiser and better human being. Great Post! Thanks for posting!
most of the quotes are evergreen and will continue to inspire students and academicians
Thank you Steve very helpful. Candice
I think it can convince everyone of the importance of learning! I fully agree with the main idea that knowledge is power.
Enlightened wisdom expressed in few words to teach a life.
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35 Inspiring Quotes About Education Short Enough for Lunchbox Notes
Wise words for students of any age and lifelong learners too
With fall in full swing and everyone settled into a back-to-school routine—and that mile-long school supplies list just a distant memory—you may be running on auto-pilot as we head into the chaos of the holiday season. Still, we can all agree that the opportunity to learn and grow through education is an incredible season of life, even with all the busyness life throws at us. And hopefully, with the right amount of curiosity and drive, a season that lasts a lifetime. That's why these inspiring quotes about education come at just the right time. Here, you'll find wisdom passed down from well-known authors, famous intellectuals, and culture makers throughout history about the benefits of learning in all its forms. Bookmark these thoughts for when you need something to motivate you to hit the books, or pick one for a back-to-school Instagram caption down the road.
Do you have a favorite educator? One of the best teacher gifts you can give is letting them know how much they've inspired your journey, so share one of these quotes with them in a thank-you note or message. If you don't find the perfect words here, we have a great list of best teacher quotes too.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.”
Albert Einstein
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
Alvin Toffler
“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.”
Andy McIntyre
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
Maya Angelou
“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.”
“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”
Carl Rogers
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Dorothy Parker
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Benjamin Franklin
“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.”
Lee Iacocca
“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”
Chinese Proverb
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
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