Authors write quotes on education for a variety of meaningful reasons. These quotes serve as a source of inspiration, motivating students, educators, and lifelong learners to embrace the pursuit of knowledge and personal growth. Educational quotes often encapsulate profound insights and wisdom in succinct phrases, making them powerful tools for communication.
They convey essential ideas and values related to learning, teaching, and the significance of education. Moreover, educational quotes encourage reflection and critical thinking, prompting individuals to consider the transformative impact of education on their lives and the world around them. In essence, these quotes act as beacons of enlightenment, guiding us on our educational journeys and reminding us of the enduring importance of knowledge and wisdom.
365 Educational Quotes by Famous Authors
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
― C.S. Lewis“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis“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“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
– Aristotle“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
– John Dewey“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
– George Washington Carver“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”
– Maya Angelou“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
– Aristotle“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
– Benjamin Franklin“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
– Sydney J. Harris“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
– Malcolm Forbes“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
– Carl Rogers“Education is the movement from darkness to light.”
– Allan Bloom“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”
– Chanakya“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
– John F. Kennedy“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
– Abraham Lincoln“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
– Theodore Roosevelt“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.”
– Conrad Hall“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”
– Plato“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
– Mark Twain“The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home.”
– William Temple“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
– Albert Einstein“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
– Albert Einstein“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
– Anatole France“Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.”
– Alice Miller“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton“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.”
– Alvin Toffler“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
– Albert Einstein“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
– Abraham Lincoln“It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.”
– Jean Piaget“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”
– Norman Cousins“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
– Victor Hugo“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
– Leo Buscaglia“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
– Anthony J. D’Angelo“If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.”
– Galileo Galilei“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”
– William Godwin“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.”
– Walt Disney“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
– Theodore Roosevelt“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
– Albert Einstein“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“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
– Diogenes“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“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”
– Abigail Adams“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
– Albert Einstein“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
– Herbert Spencer“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
– Will Durant“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
– Thomas Jefferson“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.”
– Emma Goldman“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
– Rabindranath Tagore“The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
– James A. Baldwin“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”
– Carl Sagan“All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.”
– Malala Yousafzai“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
– Edmund Burke“Your library is your paradise.”
– Desiderius Erasmus“Education is all a matter of building bridges.”
– Ralph Ellison“Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.”
– Charles Barkley“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”
– Gail Godwin“I will get my education – if it is in home, school, or anyplace.”
– Malala Yousafzai“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
– Robert Green Ingersoll“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”
– Horace Mann“If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.”
– Maynard James Keenan“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
– Robert M. Hutchins“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.”
– Anatole France“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”
– Ernest Dimnet“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
– Oscar Wilde“Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
– G. M. Trevelyan“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.”
– Russell Baker“From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.”
– Dick Cheney“A child miseducated is a child lost.”
– John F. Kennedy“Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.”
– Horace Mann“To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.”
– Caroline Kennedy“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.”
– Clifford Stoll“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
– Edward Everett“Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.”
– Horace Mann“If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.”
– Cornelius Vanderbilt“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
– Michel de Montaigne“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
– B. F. Skinner“I cannot live without books.”
– Thomas Jefferson“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.”
– Robert Kiyosaki“A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.”
– A. Bartlett Giamatti“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.”
– Tallulah Bankhead“Responsibility educates.”
– Wendell Phillips“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
– Erich Fromm“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”
– Ezra Pound“I need to complete my homework on time.”
– Malala Yousafzai“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.”
– Harvey S. Firestone“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”
– Joseph Addison“No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”
– Blaise Pascal“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.”
– Al McGuire“Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.”
– Zhuangzi“Education is the transmission of civilization.”
– Will Durant“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
– George Santayana“An educated people can be easily governed.”
– Frederick the Great“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.”
– Will Rogers“The only real failure in life is one not learned from.”
– Anthony J. D’Angelo“Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.”
– Robert Frost“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.”
– Muriel Spark“An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.”
– Alan K. Simpson“You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.”
– Tammy Faye Bakker“Education is neither eastern nor western.”
– Malala Yousafzai“Every educated person is a future enemy.”
– Martin Bormann“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”
– Edmund Burke“Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
– Education Quotes“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”
– Marian Wright Edelman“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”
– Robert E. Lee“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.”
– Steve Irwin“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
– John Dewey“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Mahatma Gandhi“It is better to learn late than never.”
– Publilius Syrus“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.”
– George Washington“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.”
– William S. Burroughs“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
– Albert Einstein“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”
– Solomon Ortiz“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”
– Kofi Annan“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
– Jim Rohn“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
– Malcolm X“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“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”
– Plato“All real education is the architecture of the soul.”
– William Bennett“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“I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.”
– Bob Marley“Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.”
– Nelson Mandela“Education is the key to the future: You’ve heard it a million times, and it’s not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.”
– Alex Tabarrok“For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.”
– Plato“The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.”
– Noam Chomsky“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
– John Locke“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.”
– Jean Piaget“There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it’s just one, and it’s education.”
– Malala Yousafzai“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
– Joseph Stalin“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.”
– Maria Montessori“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.”
– W. E. B. Du Bois“Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.”
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam“Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity… and these in turn rely on the education of our people.”
– Julia Gillard“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.”
– Michael Jackson“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
– Frank Zappa“A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.”
– Charles B. Rangel“Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.”
– Sonia Sotomayor“When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.”
– Ai Weiwei“Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.”
– Kent Conrad“I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.”
– Ronaldinho“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
– Aristotle“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
– C. S. Lewis“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.”
– Booker T. Washington“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.”
– Clarence Thomas“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“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
– Rabindranath Tagore“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”
– Plutarch“Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.”
– Bob Beauprez“Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.”
– Ron Lewis“Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.”
– Barbara Jordan“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”
– Maria Montessori“Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.”
– Desmond Tutu“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“We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.”
– Chinese proverb“Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
– Anton Chekhov“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
– Steven Spielberg“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
– Malala Yousafzai“Education is very important. The more education a woman has the more she is looked down upon. Nothing comes easy for a woman, and that is why she is tough. She has to earn everything she works hard for—that’s fine, and honestly, it isn’t an issue. Hard work grooms a woman to be a powerful force.”
– Charlena E. Jackson“No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.”
– Michelle Obama“I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”
– Malala Yousafzai“If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you’re in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it’s because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you’ll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don’t have education.”
– Malcolm X“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.”
– Kavita N. Ramdas“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
– Virginia Woolf“Education can never stop! “The more we read, the more we learn. The more we learn, the fuller life seems.”
– L.M Montgomery“If girls and women have good education and opportunities to go on in life, they can help to break down the walls of envy and misunderstanding, to give new meaning to culture and history, to establish a sense of personal security for individual men and women, not just a collective security that crushes individuality.”
– Nelson Mandela“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
– Groucho Marx“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
– Gustave Flaubert“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goes out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
– Cicero“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
– George R.R. Martin“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
– Mark Twain“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
– Albert Einstein“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 W. Eliot“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
– Dr. Seuss“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
– Benjamin Disraeli“Reading is the key that unlocks the door of creativity.”
– Agatha Christie“Education is a right, not a privilege; it is an opportunity, not an entitlement.”
– Arne Duncan“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
– Martin Luther King“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
– Thomas Paine“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
– Charlotte Brontë“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
– G.K. Chesterton“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
– Aristotle“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
– Stanley Fish“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”
– Confucius“It’s a universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
– Andy McIntyre“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
– Jim Rohn“The question is not how will you work if you lose your job; the question is how will you find one if you don’t have an education?”
– Tony Bennet“We are all born with genius, but most of us are squelched, either by our parents, our teachers, our society. We go to great schools but they do not teach us the thing we need to know: how to live.”
– Robin Williams“Education is not the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire.”
– W.B. Yeats“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
– Aristotle“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
– Theodore Roosevelt“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
– Victor Hugo“Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.”
– Charles Schultz“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
– Baruch Spinoza“O teach me how I should forget to think.”
– William Shakespeare“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
– Carl Sagan“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”
– Michel Legrand“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
– Bernard Branson“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
– Mark Twain“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
– Noam Chomsky“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
– Frank Herbert“If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”
– Romain Rolland“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
– Anton Chekhov“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
– Abraham Lincoln“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”
– John Lubbock“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
– J. Krishnamurti“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
– James Baldwin“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
– Gandhi“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
– Herman Melville“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained”
– Walt Disney“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
– Mark Twain“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
– Mary Shelley“A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.”
– Jostein Gaarder“Play is the highest form of research.”
– Albert Einstein“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
– Robert Orben“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”
– Oscar Wilde“Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.”
– Claire Fagin“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
– Harold Howe“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”
– James Madison“Only the educated are free.”
– Epictetus“The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.”
– Malala Yousafzai“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
― Will Durant“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
– Confucius“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
– H.G. Wells“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“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
– Abigail Adams“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”
– Malala Yousafzai“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
– Jacques Barzun“The only things you learn are the things you tame”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”
– Harry S. Truman“Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”
– Noam Chomsky“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
– Confucius“People think of education as something they can finish.”
– Isaac Asimov“I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.”
– Charles Schultz“An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.”
– Tara Westover“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
– Aristotle“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“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.”
– Ezra Pound“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”
– Ayn Rand“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
– Immanuel Kant“I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.”
– Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows“What I learned on my own I still remember”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb“Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.”
– Frantz Fanon“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves”
― Joseph Campbell“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
– Thomas Jefferson“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”
– Ivan Illich“I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.”
– Malala Yousafzai“Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.”
– Chuang Tzu“The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it”
– Lawrence Krauss“Progress just means bad things happen faster.”
– Terry Pratchett“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.”
– John Taylor Gatto“Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.”
– Flannery O'Connor“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
– Joseph Stalin“You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.”
– J.D. Salinger“She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.”
– Terry Pratchett“A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.”
– Anne Bishop“Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.”
– Victor Hugo“If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master.”
– Jordan B. Peterson“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.”
– Mustafa Kemal Atatürk“There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.”
– Bell Hooks“There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.”
– Ali Bin Abi Thalib“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“Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.”
– Wilhelm Reich“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
– Beatrix Potter“You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.”
– Julia Child“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
– Moliere“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing”
– Warren Buffett“Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.”
– John F. Kennedy“A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.”
– Ruth Beechick“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
– Isaac Newton“We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.”
– Freeman Dyson“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”
– Alexandre Dumas“Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”
– May Sarton“It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.”
– Cormac McCarthy“Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.”
– Hendrick Willem Van Loon“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
– Herbert M. Shelton“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”
– B.F. Skinner“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.”
– Stephen R. Covey“It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.”
– Ezra Taft Benson“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
– Herbert Spencer“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson“To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.”
– Leo Tolstoy“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ”
– Helen Keller“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”
– Mark Twain“It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”
– Claude Bernard“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
– Diogenes“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth”
– Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus“We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.”
– Bob Marley“Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.”
– St. Augustine of Hippo“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.”
– George Clooney“All of life is a constant education.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt“Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
– Ambrose Bierce“It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.”
– Murray N. Rothbard“Educated men are so impressive!”
– William Shakespeare“My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.”
– Mary Shelley“School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.”
– Jim Benton“Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.”
– Richard Dawkins“The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.”
– Debasish Mridha“Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.”
– Stephen Fry“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.”
– Alice Waters“To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.”
– Ho Chi Minh“People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices”
– Gary L. Francione“So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?”
– E.R. Braithwaite“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”
– Barry Finlay“A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.”
– Mokokoma Mokhonoana“If you hate violence and don't believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education.”
– George Orwell“In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.”
– Jerome S. Bruner“In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first.”
– Gary L. Francione“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.”
– Plato“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
– Sydney J. Harris“Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.”
– Eric Micha'el Leventhal“What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.”
– Terry Tempest Williams“Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.”
– St. Teresa of Avila“Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.”
– Flannery O'Connor“All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.”
– Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort“Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.”
– George Eliot“I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.”
– Patricia Briggs“Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.”
– Jonathan Hennessey“If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.”
– Umberto Eco“You will never know what you are doing until and unless you have done it.”
– Santosh Kalwar“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.”
– Tallulah Bankhead“The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.”
– Sherry Thomas“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life”
– Plato“Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.”
– Liz Berry“A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.“Act as if it was, and it will be.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita“Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.”
– GaryLFrancione“No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.”
– George Seldes“Well, if they would not go to school they must still have their education. And education they had had.”
– Anthony Burgess“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”
– Vera Nazarian“Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”
– Russell Baker“Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.”
– Mark Twain“Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.”
– Daniel Keyes“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”
– Aldo Leopold“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.”
– Abraham Lincoln“I am a machine condemned to devour books.”
– Karl Marx