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Being an educator is not always the easiest job, but knowing you have made an impact on students’ lives can be so rewarding. Through all of the good times and bad, you continue to persevere and provide education to students of all backgrounds and abilities. We collected 50 of the best quotes about education to celebrate the best parts of teaching, learning, and the impact they have on the world.

Our Favorite Quotes About Education

“education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.” — malcolm x.

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” — Elin Nordegren

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm Forbes

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” — Abigail Adams

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. … Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“A person who won’t read has no advantage over a person who can’t read.” — Mark Twain

“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” — Unknown

“Education is the key to unlock a golden door of freedom.” — George Washington Carver

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” — John F. Kennedy

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” — George Santayana

“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle

“Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life.” — W.E.B Du Bois

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” — Horace Mann

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” — Steve Irwin

“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” — Sidney Hook

“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” — William Bennett

“Education is the key which will unlock the door of opportunity for you.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” — Maya Angelou

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” — Bill Nye

“The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Helen Keller

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle

“To teach is to learn twice.” — Joseph Joubert

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” — Confucius

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” — Mark Van Doren

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” — Margaret Mead

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” — Henry Ford

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Brooks Adams

“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buehner

“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” — Eliphas Levi

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai

“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.” — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” — Isaac Asimov

“Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.” — Ezra Pound

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” — Marian Wright Edelman

“It is only the ignorant who despise education.” — Publilius Syrus

“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” — William Morris

“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.” — Nancy Astor

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.” — Norman Cousins

“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.” — John Ruskin

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.” — Horace Mann

“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.” — Frederick William Robertson

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.” — Edward Everett

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Whether you’re a teacher or a student, a new school year is an exciting time. These education quotes will get you ready to enjoy teaching and learning anytime.

School pushes us out of our comfort zone, teaches us to dream big, and encourages us to achieve our potential.

In celebration of all the amazing things that education, we’ve put together a list of the best quotes about school, learning, and teaching.

So whether you’re a parent, student, or teacher – we’ve got you covered as you get ready for another year of school.

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Top 10 Education Quotes

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Oprah Winfrey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration . Bill Frist

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Herbert Spencer

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett 

Quotes about Education

Whether you’re at the beginning of a new year or semester of learning, or aren’t quite sure where your knowledge will take you next – look no further than these inspiring education quotes.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Ernest Dimnet

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes

Only the educated are free. Epictetus

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. Plato

It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling. Murray N. Rothbard

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin Fisher

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. Shakuntala Devi

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking

Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. George Carlin

Even the genius asks questions. Tupac Shakur

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers

Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do. Bruce Lee

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. Lewis

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein

Development is a series of rebirths. Maria Montessori

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. Buddha

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. Mark Twain

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. W.B. Yeats

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. Sir Claus Moser

Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle

They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. Muriel Spark

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George Washington Carver

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller

Learning Quotes

Live as if you will die tomorrow. Learn as if you will live forever. Mahatma Gandhi

The learning process continues until the day you die. Kirk Douglas

The doer alone learneth. Friedrich Nietzsche

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first. Ray Congdon

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. Wendell Berry

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. Voltaire

Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi

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

Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work. William Crawford

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb

The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. B.B. King

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid. G.K. Chesterton

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Henry Ford

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. Thomas Szasz

Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. Harry S. Truman

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. Claude Bernard

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. Vernon Howard

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world. Eric Hoffer

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. Claude Bernard

Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman

I’m still learning. Michelangelo

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. Michel Legrand

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle

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School Quotes

A new desk, a handful of freshly sharpened pencils, the first page of a new workbook… there are no days quite like school days!

From Kindergarten to college, celebrate all stages of education and their role in shaping our futures with these great school quotes.

In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. Tom Bodett

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school. Terrance Deal

We don’t stop going to school when we graduate . Carol Burnett

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work. Richard Livingstone

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. Harold Howe

School made us ‘literate’ but did not teach us to read for pleasure. Ambeth Ocampo

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E.M. Forster

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. Robert T. Kiosaki

The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. Dr. Seuss

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. Chuck Grassley

Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials is like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing. Madeline Hunter

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. Agnes Repplierg

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. Og Mandino

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

School is a place that provides education, and education is the key to life. Unknown

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. John Taylor Gatto

I’m not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. Emma Watson

School prepares you for the real world… which also bites. Jim Benton

There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. Ray Bradbury

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book for everything. Robert Frost

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. George Evans

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.Margaret Atwood

Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. Roy T. Bennett

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. Stanley Kubrick

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year. Henry Ford

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else. James E. Faust

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun. Josephine Baker

Education begins at home . You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him. Geoffrey Holder

Teaching Quotes

Teachers have the amazing power of being able to inspire young minds.

Celebrate those who help children and young people achieve their potential with these quotes about teachers and teaching.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage . A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential. John C. Maxwell

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world. Malala Yousafzai

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson. John Henrik Clarke

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Cicero

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C.S. Lewis

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. Ruth Beechick

Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. John Holt

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. Frank Herbert

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor

Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Francis Keppel

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge. Brad Sherman

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. Joseph Campbell

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. Solomon Ortiz

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers

We hope you’re feeling inspired and excited to go back to school!

Enjoy these education quotes and quotes on teaching and learning anytime you need some extra schooling for your mind. Let us know your favorite below!

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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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100 Education Quotes That Will Inspire You To Keep Growing

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .

Education is vital.

You without education:

• More likely to become poor
• More likely to have diseases
• More likely to commit crimes

You with education:

• More likely to be happy
• More likely to make more money
• More likely to live longer

So, what’s the key to a better future?

Inspired by this, I have compiled 100 of the best education quotes I could find.

To inspire you and make you realize the value of proper education.

You’ll discover quotes by Einstein, Budha, Lao Tzu, and more.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. Bruce Lee

A dull mind gets bored easily. A curious mind expands forever. Maxime Lagacé

Play is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein ( This source says it’s probably not from Einstein)

A generation of auto-didacts, educated by the Internet and leveraged by technology, will eventually starve the industrial-education system. Naval Ravikant

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. Bob Talber

Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson

A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero

The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice. James Clear

The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller

Only the autodidacts are free. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams

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The Best Education Quotes

The more you make it easy for your kids, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning. Maxime Lagacé

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. United Negro College Fund

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. Chinese proverb

The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt

Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge . Naval Ravikant

Podcasts are free. Twitter is free. Wikipedia is free. YouTube is free. We are living in a golden age of self-education. Brian Feroldi ( Source )

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. Naval Ravikant

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. Socrates

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming

Education begins the gentleman, but reading , good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke

Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. Jim Rohn

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. Bill Nye (upworthy.com)

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The learned man knows that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo

I am still learning. Michelangelo

Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Albert Einstein

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

You can never be overdressed or overeducated. Oscar Wilde

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. James Dewar

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Augustine of Hippo

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

My education was interrupted only by my schooling. Winston Churchill

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes

As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Short Education Quotes

Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France

Responsibility educates. Wendell Phillips

A sign of good education: students don’t feel entitled. Maxime Lagacé

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Andy McIntyre

The world exists for the education of each man. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even a fool learns something once it hits him. Homer

Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus

Success is a poor teacher. Robert Kiyosaki

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes

There is no education like adversity. Benjamin Disraeli

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese proverb

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou

Inspirational Education Quotes

If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. Nora Roberts

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino

When anything can be learned online, the barrier to education is simply motivation, curiosity, and persistence. Anthony Pompliano ( Source )

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness . It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant (Naval referred to the Internet and social medias like Twitter and LinkedIn)

Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it. Walter Isaacson

Every person with a smartphone and a pair of headphones has access to the kind of education that was once reserved for the sons of aristocracy. The Stoic Emperor

Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be. Rita Pierson

They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. Aristotle

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual. Jean Piaget

Funny And Surprising Education Sayings

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day. Jay Mohr

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones

Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for. Jerry Seinfeld

Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime. Red Skelton

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn’t stop until you get to school. Milton Berle 😂

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. Mark Twain

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. Mark Twain

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. Robin Williams

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education Proverbs For Value-Packed Wisdom

When the student is ready, the master appears. Buddhist proverb

If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly. Buddhist proverb

Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen proverb

A single conversation with a wise man is better than 10 years of study. Chinese proverb

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese proverb

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. Chinese proverb

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Chinese proverb

Wise men may not be learned; learned men may not be wise. Chinese proverb

A stumble may prevent a fall. English proverb

Despise school and remain a fool. German proverb

All things good to know are difficult to learn. Greek proverb

An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught. Japanese proverb

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. Japanese proverb

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. Latin proverb

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin H. Fischer

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. Eartha Kitt

Key Takeaways

• Want a great education? Never get bored asking questions.
• Want a great way to learn? Play! Don’t be so serious.
• Want to go far in life? Be an autodidact. You can learn anything on the Internet.
• Remember: answers are good, but questions are better.
• To know is good. To know what’s worth knowing is better.

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201 Inspiring Education Quotes for Students and Teachers

Education opens up the mind, expands it and allows you to improve your life in so many ways.

So this week – as schools are starting again – I’d like to share 201 of the most motivating and inspiring quotes on education.

I hope you’ll find them helpful no matter if you’re a student that needs a boost of motivation or if you’re a teacher of any kind that wants to inspire and make a change in the lives of your students.

And if you want more inspiration check out this collection of quotes on moving forward and this one with growth mindset quotes .

Education Quotes to Motivate Students

1. “A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

2. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein

3. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo

4. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain

5. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe

6. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” Jim Rohn

7. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X

8. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” Zig Ziglar

9. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Andy McIntyre

10. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.” Carl Rogers

11. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” Mark Twain

12. “Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. “Light! Give me light!” was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.” Helen Keller

13. “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” David M. Burns

14. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” Will Durant

15. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” Wayne Dyer

16. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” Tom Bodett

17. “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” Lloyd Alexander

18. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John R. Wooden

19. “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” Abraham Maslow

20. “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Ben Franklin

21. “If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” Ludwig Wittgenstein

22. “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” John Newton 

23. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein

24. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” Maya Angelou

25. “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” Francis Bacon

26. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi

27. “Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” Jiddu Krishnamurti

28. “They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace.” Malala Yousafzai

29. “That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.” Seneca

30. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” Leonardo da Vinci

31. “Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.” James Dewar

32. “To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.” Epictetus

33. “Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” Chinese proverb

34. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” Bill Nye

35. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” Dorothy Parker

36. “Success is a poor teacher.” Robert Kiyosaki

37. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” Thomas Jefferson

38. “Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.” Robin Williams

39. “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.” Cicero

40. “Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.” Lee Iacocca

41. “Despise school and remain a fool.” German proverb

42. “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.” Bruce Lee

43. “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” Seneca

44. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” Nora Roberts

45. “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” Baruch Spinoza

46. “The learned man knows that he is ignorant.” Victor Hugo

47. “Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.” Euripides

48. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” Og Mandino

49. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” Albert Einstein

50. “Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. ” Pete Seeger

51. “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” Chinese Proverb

52. “The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow.” Naval Ravikant

53. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” Charles F. Kettering

54. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” Zig Ziglar

55. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” Jim Rohn

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Education Quotes for Teachers

56. “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” Clay P. Bedford

57. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry B Adams

58. “Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” John W. Gardner

59. “To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert

60. “Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” Chinese proverb

61. “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” Alfred Mercier

62. “Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” Erich Fromm

63. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” James Baldwin

64. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer

65. “Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” Roger Lewin

66. “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” Bill Beattie

67. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” Alexandra K. Trenfor

68. “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” G.K. Chesterton

69. “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” Lady Bird Johnson

70. “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” Chinese proverb

71. “ Nine tenths of education is encouragement .” Anatole France 72. “If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” Jim Rohn

73. “The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his “mistakes.” The more a child’s work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is . And the more a teacher removes them from the child’s work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.” Franz Cizek

74. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” Goethe

75. “Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.” Claus Moser

76. “I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.“ Steve Irwin

77. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela

78. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret Mead

79. “The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice.” James Clear

80. “Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

81. “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” Plato

82. “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” Jim Henson

83. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Aristotle

84. “I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” Stanley Kubrick

85. “The more you make it easy for your kids, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning.” Maxime Lagacé

86. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” Hellen Keller

87. “All learning has an emotional base.” Plato

88. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” C.S. Lewis

89. “If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly.” Buddhist proverb

90. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” Franklin P. Jones

91. “Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it.” Walter Isaacson

92. “The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

93. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” Diogenes

94. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” Plutarch

95. “People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.” Socrates

96. “By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.” Latin proverb

97. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James

98. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” Bob Talber

99. “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” Chinese proverb

100. “Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” Plato

101. “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” Maya Angelou

102. “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it.” Arnold Glasow

Quotes on the Power of Education

103. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” Epictetus

104. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” Abraham Maslow

105. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

106. “No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.” G.K. Chesterton

107. “When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.” Peter Drucker

108. “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” Gloria Steinem

109. “If a man is a fool, you don’t train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.” Desmond Bagley

110. “The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.” William R. Inge

111. “People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.” Bill Vaughan

112. “What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” Henry David Thoreau

113. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” Leo Buscaglia

114. “Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.” Edward De Bono

115. “I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.” Andy Rooney

116. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” Sydney J. Harris

117. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain

118. “What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.” Joseph Addison

119. “Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” Peter Brougham

120. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein

121. “Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” William Haley

122. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” Helen Keller

123. “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” Robert G. Ingersoll

124. “Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” Abraham Lincoln

125. “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” Buckminster Fuller

126. “Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” John Keats

127. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.“ Jim Rohn

128. “It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.” T.S. Eliot

129. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Aristotle

130. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” Robert Frost

131. “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.” John F. Kennedy

132. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Henry Ford

133.“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” Brigham Young

134. “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” Thomas Paine

135. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King

136. “When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world.” Shai Reshef

137. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” Aristotle

138. “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” Michel Legrand

139. “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” George Santayana

140. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” B.B. King

Smart and Insightful Education Quotes

In this section I’d like to share recent findings that have helped me see things in a new way when it comes to education.

I hope that these timeless thoughts will help to open up new perspectives for you too.

141. “Everything is a learning process: Any time you fall over, it’s just teaching you to stand up the next time.” Joel Edgerton

142. “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you have understood all your life, but in a new way.” Doris Lessing

143. “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” Thomas Jefferson

144. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius

145. “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Peter Drucker

146. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” Chanakya

147. “A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.” Andy Hargreaves

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

149. “The ability to read, write, and analyze; the confidence to stand up and demand justice and equality; the qualifications and connections to get your foot in the door and take your seat at the table — all of that starts with education.” Michelle Obama

150. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” Og Mandino

151. “Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.” George Weah

152. “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” Mark Twain

153. “What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.” Chuck Grassley

154. “Life is an open book test. Learning how to learn is your most valuable skill in the online world.” Marc Cuban

155. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” Roy T. Bennett

156. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” Albert Einstein

157. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey

158. “It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.” Agnes Repplierg

159. “You cannot dream of becoming something you do not know about. You have to learn to dream big. Education exposes you to what the world has to offer, to the possibilities open to you.” Sonia Sotomayor

160. “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” Walter Cronkite

161. “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” Brigham Young

162. “Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.” Claude Bernard

163. “The best education is not given to students; it is drawn out of them.” Gerald Belcher

164. “Life long learners will always be ahead of the people standing still, the people who haven’t learned many new things in the past 10 years. So keep on learning because that makes it easier to advance in your career, remedy relationship issues and to grow older in a smart way. Plus, it most often makes life more exciting.” Rip Miller

165. “Do not conform your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.” Hebrew Proverb

166. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin

167. “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” Kofi Annan

168. “All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.” Denis Waitley

169. “In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.” Barack Obama

170. “It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.” Cormac McCarthy

171. “Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” John Holt

172. “They know enough who know how to learn.” Henry Adams

173. “You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Short Quotes About Education

Finally, a few handfuls of short, sharp and punchy education quotes. The ones that cut right to the point.

I hope you’ll find something that refuels or relights your motivation here.

174. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.“ Malcolm Forbes

175. “Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities.” Nelson Mandela

176. “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” Muriel Spark

177. “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” George Evans

178. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats

179. “Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.” Dr. W. Edwards Deming

180. “By seeking and blundering we learn.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

181. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” Herbert Spencer

182. “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” John Hersey

183. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.” Brian Tracy

184. “Education is the great engine to personal development.” Nelson Mandela

185. “All real education is the architecture of the soul.” William Bennett

186. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” Albert Einstein

187. “The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth” Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

188. “Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life.” W.E.B Du Bois

189. “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” Alexander the Great

190. “All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” Martin Fisher

191. “We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.” Peter De Vries

192. “I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.” Steven Wright

193. “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” William S. Burroughs

194. “Learning without thought is a labor lost, thought without learning is perilous.” Confucius

195. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” Socrates

196. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai

197. “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.“ Albert Einstein

198. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” Edward Everett

199. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver

200. “A good education is a foundation for a better future.” Elizabeth Warren

201. “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” Conrad Hall

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35 Inspiring Quotes about Education

Sometimes it can be hard to remember why education and learning is important. I have vivid memories from college where I wanted to drop out and how I was so done with school. When that happened, I thought about my why, my purpose. Below are 35 spectacular quotes about education and learning to remind yourself how important it is to learn! These are great for a motivational push when you want to give up on that paper or for a custom teacher’s gift or card. 

As a teacher, my favorite quotes about education from this list are numbers 9, 17, 21, and 30. I’ve seen lots of teacher shirts and things that have those quotes on them!

• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
• “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
• “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
• “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” – Plato
• “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver
• “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
• “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
• “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.” – Christine Gregoire
• “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
• “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
• “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” – Aristotle
• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Education is the foundation of all progress.” – John F. Kennedy
• “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom
• “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
• “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan

• “Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.” – Brad Henry
• “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer
• “Education is the foundation of opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
• “Education is the vaccine for violence.” – Edward James Olmos
• “The educated man is the man who can stimulate his own mind.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
• “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein
• “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
• “Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.” – Nora Ephron
• “Education is the foundation of a strong and informed society.” – Elizabeth Warren
• “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb
• “Education is the engine of personal development.” – Peter Thiel
• “The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.” – Aristotle
• “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes Laertius
• “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
• “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William S. Burroughs
• “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” – Solomon Ortiz

Which quotes about education are your favorite from the list? Or do you have another that inspires you? Share in the comments below!

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11 comments.

Excellent quotes! My favorite one is “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein

I love all the quotes in this post. My favorites are 5 and 15. So much truth in them!

I love all these quotes about education. My favorite is “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” Education is life, I think it surmarises everything.

Love all of these, number 13 is my personal favorite I would say. Thanks so much for sharing so much inspiration.

This is an awesome collection of quotes. This is by far my favorite: “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

Education is the magic bullet that can take your life where you want it to go. It is the key to rising from poverty and bad circumstances.

Thank you for sharing these amazing quotes. Number 24 “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein – is really what education should be about.

I’m a former teacher. Love these quotes!

“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know,” by Aristotle is one of my favorite quotes! A mind that always wants to learn is the best mind.

such a great list of quotes

Loved this! Great list of quotes! 🙂

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126 Inspirational Education Quotes for Students & Teachers

These inspiring educational quotes will show students, teachers and parents the power of learning. Wether you’re looking to motivate kids or young adults in the classroom, or other teachers and colleagues, this is the wisdom they need to thrive and be their very best version of themselves.

Also make sure to see these inspirational quotes for kids (if you’re looking to inspire and motivate the next generation).

Education Quotes

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” – Malala Yousafzai

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch

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“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley

“Education without application is just entertainment.” – Tim Sanders

“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” – Mark Twain

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“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris

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

“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” – Francis Bacon

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya

“A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” – Mark Twain

“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond

“School exams are memory tests, in the real world no one is going to stop you from referring to a book to solve a problem.” – Amit Kalantri

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking

“You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb

“The road to freedom –here and everywhere on earth-– begins in the classroom.” – Hubert Humphrey

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” – Doris Lessing

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” – Dorothy Parker

“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” – Mary McLeod Bethune

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C. S. Lewis

“Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.” – Sir Anthony Seldon

“Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.” – John Dewey

“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.” – Denis Waitley

“The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.” – Lindsay Kolowich

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein

“Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.” – Eric Fromm

“Education is the great engine to personal development.” – Nelson Mandela

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” – Elin Nordegren

“All of life is a constant education.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“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

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” – Auguste Rodin

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William Burroughs

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb

“You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.” – Julia Child

“Education should not be reading about the past rather it should be about addressing the present.” – Rajesh Walecha

“Take what you learn and make a difference with it.” – Tony Robbins

“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” – Horace Mann

“Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.” – Confucius

“Life is an open book test. Learning how to learn is your most valuable skill in the online world.” – Marc Cuban

“Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France

“Intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.” – Daniel Keyes

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant

“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” – George Evans

“We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” – Michelle Obama

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Andy McIntyre

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” – Mark Twain

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

“Education around entrepreneurship should start early, at secondary level, and be very robust by college level.” – Stephen A. Schwarzman

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein

“The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.” – John Dewey

“Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus

“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

“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” – William Glasser

“They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it is in the home, school, or any place.” – Malala Yousafzai

“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.” – Victor Hugo

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” – Gloria Steinem

“School is the path, not the point.” – Will Richardson

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker

“Education is the transmission of civilization.” – Will Durant

“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later” – Dana Stewart Scott

“Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities.” – Nelson Mandela

“All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.” – David Hawkins

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” – Richard Feynman

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” – John Holt

“Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.” – Robin Williams

“Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats

“If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.” – Brad Sherman

“We all know that education, more than anything else, improves your chances of building better lives.” – Nelson Mandela

“I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.” – Ann Brashares

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer

“The learning process continues until the day you die.” – Kirk Douglas

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B.King

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso

“Education is everything- education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.” – Ciara

“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” – Epictetus

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.” – Gustave Flaubert

“No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.” – Nelson Mandela

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” – Martin Fisher

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” – William Arthur Ward

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

“All things good to know are difficult to learn.” – Greek proverb

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“To delight in literature is to desire to learn.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller

“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” – Thomas Carruthers

“The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.” – George Santayana

“Let’s recommit to work towards our common goal: a nation where all of us are winners, all of us have shelter, food, and education.” – Nelson Mandela

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand

“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.” – Nelson Mandela

“I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.” – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.” – Will Rogers

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi

“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.” – William James

“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” – Helen Keller

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” – Seneca

“Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.” – Anton Chekhov

“I am not a teacher, but an awakened.” – Robert Frost

“The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.” – Harry Wong

“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” – Steve Irwin

“The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” – Confucius

“All men by nature desire to know.” – Aristotle

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about.” – Thomas Huxley

“Reading is the key that unlocks the door of creativity.” – Agatha Christie

“You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” – Marvin Minsky

“Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.” – Ernest Dimnet

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” – Albert Einstein

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” – Isaac Asimov

“Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning.” – Naval Ravikant

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats

“In the end, we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.” – Don Tapscott

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100 Best Quotes About Education & Teachers

June 14, 2024

Looking for affirming, uplifting, or funny quotes to share with your students? Quotes about education can be used for a number of purposes, from classroom decoration, to thought-provoking discussion prompts. Below you can find 100 quotes about education, including those by famous scientists, authors, artists, activists, and world leaders. These teacher quotes are sorted into 10 categories. These include inspiring quotes, quotes about curiosity, quotes for special education, early childhood education quotes, high school education quotes. Additionally, we serve up art education quotes, literary quotes, STEM quotes, funny quotes, and thought-provoking quotes.

Inspiring Education Quotes/Teacher Quotes 

1) Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. -Malcolm X (American human rights activist)

2) Change is the end result of all true learning. – Leo Buscaglia (American author and speaker)

3) When girls become educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous. -Michelle Obama (American attorney and author, and former First Lady of the U.S.)

4) The ability to read, write, and analyze; the confidence to stand up and demand justice and equality; the qualifications and connections to get your foot in that door and take your seat at that table—all of that starts with education. -Michelle Obama (American attorney and author, and former First Lady of the U.S.)

5) Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. – Marian Wright Edelman (former president of Children’s Defense Fund)

6) They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it is in the home, school, or any place. – Malala Yousafzai (Pakistani education activist)

7) Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. -George Washington Carver (American agricultural scientist and inventor)

8) Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. -Nelson Mandela (former president of South Africa)

9) Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. -John Dewey (American philosopher)

10) I never learned from a man who agreed with me. – Robert A Heinlein (American science fiction writer and engineer)

Education quotes about curiosity/ Teacher Quotes 

11) It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. -Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist)

12) Be curious, not judgmental. – Walt Whitman (American poet)

13) I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. -Eleanor Roosevelt (former First Lady of the U.S.)

14) Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire. -W.B. Yeats (Irish poet)

15) Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart. – Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi botanist and author)

16) The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. – Dorothy Parker (American poet and writer)

17) Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it. -Walter Isaacson (American author and journalist)

18) Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. -Franz Kafka (German-language writer)

19) Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on the forehead. – Susan Sontag (American writer and critic)

20) The secret to success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity. -Larry King (American author)

Special Education Quotes/Special Education Teacher Quotes 

21)The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. – B.B. King (American blues musician)

22) A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. -Helen Keller (American writer and disability rights activist)

23) That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (American essayist)

24) Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. -Mahatma Gandhi (Indian activist and leader)

25) Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. – Robert Frost (American poet)

26) “What did you learn?” is always the first and best question. -Oprah Winfrey (American television host and producer)

27) With every mistake, we must surely be learning. -George Harrison (British musician)

28) A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard. -Eliphas Levi (French poet and writer)

29) Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, ‘I’m possible.’ -Audrey Hepburn (British actress)

30) Every student can learn, just not on the same day or in the same way. -George Evans (American educator and cartoonist)

Early Childhood Education Quotes/ Teacher Quotes 

31) To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. -Muriel Spark (Scottish writer)

32) The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. -Dr. Seuss (American writer and cartoonist)

33) Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and to learn something new. -Barack Obama (former U.S. president)

34) Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. -Roger Lewin (British science writer)

35) When you learn, teach. When you get, give. – Maya Angelou (American poet and civil rights activist)

36) Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. – Maya Angelou (American poet and civil rights activist)

37) Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. -Ernest Dimnet (French priest and writer)

38) Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. – Margaret Mead (American anthropologist)

39) The more risks you allow your children to take, the better they learn to look after themselves. – Roald Dahl (British children’s author)

40) Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world. – Lois Lowry (American writer)

High School Education Quotes/ Teacher Quotes 

41) Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. -Abigail Adams (former First Lady of the U.S.)

42) Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. -Babe Ruth (American baseball player)

43) Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. – Auguste Rodin (French sculptor)

44) Education is everything—education is your power; education is your way in life for whatever you want to do. -Ciara (American musician)

45) Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work. -William Crawford (American politician and judge)

46) Education must not simply teach work; it must teach life. – W.E.B. Du Bois (American sociologist)

47) I may not be there yet, but I am closer than I was yesterday. – Misty Copeland (first African American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre)

48) Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. -Eleanor Roosevelt (former First Lady of the U.S.)

49) I have come to believe over time that what is most important must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. -Audre Lorde (American writer and activist)

50) How wonderful that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank (German diarist)

Music, Dance, and Visual Art Education Quotes

51) I am still learning. -Michelangelo (Italian sculptor and painter)

52) I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter)

53) Learn by practice. -Martha Graham (American modern dancer and choreographer)

54) Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it. -Aretha Franklin

55) I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for. – Georgia O’Keeffe (American painter)

56) Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there. -Miles Davis (jazz music legend)

57) If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch painter)

58) If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting. -David Bowie (British musician)

59) Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. – Leonardo da Vinci (Italian painter and scientist)

60) Because my musical training has been limited, I’ve never been restricted to what technical musicians might call a song. -Neil Diamond (American musician)

Literary Education Quotes/Teacher Quotes 

61) Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. -George Carlin (American social critic and comedian)

62) The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. -Voltaire (French Enlightenment writer)

63) 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 (American poet)

64) The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. – Jhumpa Lahiri (British-American author)

65) Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions. -Jane Austen (British novelist)

66) Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences. – Sylvia Plath (American poet and novelist)

67) The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, read, read, read. -Ernest Gaines (American author)

68) As for ‘Write what you know,’ I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I wrote about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, and the Napa Valley in 22002. (Continued) I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them. -Ursula K. Le Guin (American author)

69) If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word. – Margaret Atwood (Canadian author)

70) If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. – Toni Morrison (American author)

STEM Education Quotes/ STEM Teacher Quotes 

71) You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way. – Marvin Minsky (American computer scientist)

72) I became an astronomer because I could not imagine living on Earth and not trying to understand how the universe works. – Vera Rubin (American astronomer)

73) Any fool can know. The point is to understand. -Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist)

74) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist)

75) Learning is synthesizing seemingly divergent ideas and data. -Terry Heick (American educator and poet)

Quotes Continued

76) Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. – Stephen Hawking (British theoretical physicist)

77) An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only great curiosity but great fulfillment. – David Attenborough (British broadcaster, biologist, and natural historian)

78) Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. -Bill Nye (American science television presenter)

79) Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us. -Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi botanist and author)

80) Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie (Polish-French physicist and chemist)  

Funny or Clever Education Quotes/ Teacher Quotes 

81) Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. -Henry Ford (American motor engineer)

82) Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. -Zig Ziglar (American author and motivational speaker)

83) Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough. -Alain de Botton (British author and public speaker)

84) Education is a continual process. It’s like a bicycle…if you don’t pedal, you don’t go forward. -George Weah (Liberian politician and footballer)

85) You can never be overdressed or overeducated. – Oscar Wilde (Irish poet and playwright)

86) You’re lucky. When I went to school, my teachers discouraged every dream I ever had…remember, a ‘no’ is free. Ask for the world and pay no mind if you are initially turned down. A career in the arts is like a hitchhiking trip: All you need is one person to say ‘Get in’ and off you go. -John Waters (American filmmaker, writer, actor, and producer)

87) There’s more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. -Walt Disney (American animator and film producer)

88) The road to success is always under construction. -Lily Tomlin (American actress and comedian)

89) If you think your teachers are tough, wait ‘til you get a boss. -Bill Gates (American businessman)

90) Education can get you the only thing that matters in today’s world: an assigned parking space. -Gene Perret (American comedy writer)

Thought-Provoking Education Quotes/Teacher Quotes 

91) Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mahatma Gandhi (Indian activist and leader)

92) Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. -G.K. Chesterton (British author and philosopher)

93) By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is the noblest; Second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius (Chinese philosopher)

94) Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. -Arthur Ashe (American tennis player)

95) I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. -Eartha Kitt (American singer and actress)

96) He who opens a school door, closes a prison. – Victor Hugo (French poet, novelist, and dramatist)

97) 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. (American minister and civil rights activist)

98) Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. – Socrates (Greek philosopher)

99) The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education. -Mark Twain (American writer)

100) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt (former First Lady of the U.S.)

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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

The 85 Best Quotes about Education

Education truly is a privilege. With more than 70 million children who have no access to primary education, it becomes obvious that not all are guaranteed the right to education. As a result, more than 700 million adults around the world cannot read or write. Consequently, they lack the basic principles that could help them to improve their living conditions. What happens when you deprive millions of their right to education can be seen all around the world. Poverty, trafficking, slavery, and diseases that could be avoided are often the results of a lack of education. Similarly, individuals who are illiterate are more likely to be susceptible to victimization. Many of us think of education as a right. However, when keeping the above figures in mind, it becomes clear that it is more than a right; it’s a privilege. At the same time, education does not stop once you’ve graduated. Instead, learning, growing, and educating yourself is a lifelong process. It will never stop. To celebrate the great privilege of education, we’ve created the following collection of the best quotes about education.

Admittedly, going to school is not always a pleasurable thing. There may be teachers and later on perhaps even professors who do their best to make your life a pain. However, these bad examples must never be allowed to negatively influence your opinion about education.

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain

If it’s done right, education inspires young minds to envision a brighter future. Not only that but it also gives them the necessary tools and skills to confidently make that vision a reality.

The following quotes about education will remind you what a great gift it is.

With the right education and perhaps even the right teacher or guide on your side, anything is possible. Education empowers the youth and motivates them to strive to reach their full potential. Even more so, it gives young individuals the necessary skill set to address the challenges and problems of the future.

When you read through the following collection of quotes about education, you’ll be reminded how precious education is. In fact, the following authors found beautifully eloquent words to express their great appreciation of education. At the same time, these statements will make you aware how important it is to ensure the privilege of education for generations to come.

Here are these inspiring quotes about education:

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” Plutarch

“Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.” Eric Micha’el Leventhal

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret Mead

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” Aristotle

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” Walter Cronkite

“True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.” David O. McKay

“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.” H.L. Mencken

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” Alexander the Great

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” Thomas Paine

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” G.K. Chesterton

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.” Jean Piaget

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” C.S. Lewis

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” Oscar Wilde

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” Isaac Asimov

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Henry Ford

“What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.” Paulo Coelho

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Aristotle

“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves” Joseph Campbell

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” Plato

“Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.” Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” C.S. Lewis

“Only the educated are free.” Epictetus

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

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. „ Jane Austen

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.” Charlotte Brontë

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.” Albert Einstein

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.” Samuel Johnson

“[Learning] is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” T.H. White

“Education isn’t for getting a job. It’s about developing yourself as a human being.” Liz Berry

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” Albert Einstein

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” Herbert Spencer

“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.” B.F. Skinner

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” Neil deGrasse Tyson

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.” Walter Scott

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.” Samuel Johnson

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” Charles William Eliot

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” W.B. Yeats

“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fills you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.” Robert Frost

“Change is the end result of all true learning.” Leo Buscaglia

“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it” Nicholas Sparks

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” Terry Pratchett

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: ‘Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.” Arthur C. Clarke

“Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.” Jonathan Hennessey

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” Brigham Young

“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.” Phil Collins

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.” Khaled Hosseini

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” Sydney J. Harris

“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.” Charles Dickens

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Albert Einstein

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” Jim Rohn

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” Stanley Kubrick

“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” Thomas A. Edison

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.” Ray Bradbury

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein

“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.” John Taylor Gatto

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. „ Pete Seeger

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Robert Orben

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” Robert Frost

“You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!” Bill Watterson

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.” Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot open a book without learning something.” Confucius

“To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.” Roy T. Bennett

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” Aristotle

“In school, we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.” Robert T. Kiyosaki

“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” Theodore Roosevelt

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” Tom Bodett

“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?” George Washington

“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.” Plato

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” Muriel Spark

“Wisdom… comes not from age, but from education and learning.” Anton Chekhov

“It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” Albert Einstein

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” Richard Feynman

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” Mark Twain

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.” Peter F. Drucker

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” Brigham Young

I hope you enjoyed this collection of some of the most beautiful quotes about education.

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95 Education Quotes: Inspire Children, Parents, AND Teachers

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Why is education important?

Education is the key to everything that is good in our world today. Advances in computers, information technology, math, medicine, psychology, engineering and every other discipline would be impossible if education didn't help us build on the advances of the great minds that came before us.

In fact, it is essential that as a society that we keep learning new things . Education is not only about the past and present, but it is also the key to the future. It will help discipline our children for the intellectual challenges of the rest of the 21st century. And it not only teaches our children facts but also teaches them how to think and learn on their own.

So to honor all educators, teachers, administrators, professors and even those involved in cutting edge online education, here are 95 education quotes that will hopefully provide you with a bit of inspiration.

These quotes about education show both the past and present views on education. They also show clearly why education is also so important for our future.

Let's get to it…

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What is a Good Education?

There will always be arguments about what is taught in schools. Socrates was fed poison for teaching the “wrong things”. William of Ockam and Galileo are two great examples that philosophy and science have always been controversial topics (to understate the issue) when education runs counter to the status quo.

The line on what is good education seems to keep moving.

With common core and year-round schools coming into vogue these days, schools are a very different place than when I was a kid. And education 50 years from now will be even more different. I imagine 3-D display classrooms, with virtual summer bulletin boards and a ton of technology streamlining learning. (Even now, you check out the best educational apps that kids can use to better engage in learning .)

Yes, the future of education may seem strange to us today, but the changes will be made for the better of the student, or the changes will not last long.

When I think of, “what is good education” one quote comes to my mind. A quote by John Fitzgerald Kennedy that I think encapsulates what a good education is really all about:

(Are you a teacher looking to create goals for the next school year? Our post on SMART goals examples for teachers might help! )

With our first education quote out of the way, I will stop my essay, and give you a look at what you can expect from the rest of this quote post.

This article will feature many education quotes by many of the greatest thinkers of all time: Albert Einstein, George Santayana, Confucius, Maya Angelou, Francis Bacon, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, and Benjamin Franklin

But all these quotes are not just the serious musings of the bright lights from history. Many entertainers have chimed in over the years with their own quotes about the importance of education. This list has education quotes from Jim Henson, Dr. Seuss , H.G Wells, C.S. Lewis, Katey Sagal, Tupac Shakur, and Lady Gaga.

Without further ado, let’s get to the education quotes. Starting first with the most important aspect of education: kids. As the late Whitney Houston sang “ I believe that children are our are future.  Teach them well and let them lead the way ”

Let's start by focusing on quotes about the impact of education on children…

Education Quotes for Kids

• “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” – Jim Henson
• “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”– Dr. Seuss
• “Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” – Chinese proverb
• “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” – George Santayana
• “Children just need the time, space, and permission to be kids.” – Angela Hanscom
• “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead

• “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” – Ernest Dimnet
• “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
• “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
• “Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” – Roger Lewin
• “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

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

• “Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.” – Glenn Beck
• “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” – Maya Angelou
• “The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’” – Maria Montessori
• “Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” – Harold Hulbert
• “I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.” – Ann Brashares
• “Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”– Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ”– Nelson Mandela

• “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin
• “Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.” – Sir Anthony Seldon

Educational Quotes to Motivate Your Students

Creating self-motivation is a challenge . It's even harder to generate motivation in a classroom setting.

While a few kids are motivated to do well from their own thirst for knowledge. Most are not.

Particularly younger kids may go into school kicking and screaming the whole way. While the best motivation will always be intrinsic motivation something has to be done to give kids that initial motivation until they grow up enough to motivate themselves.

Parents and teachers are always working up new tricks to give these students a bit of motivation. Of course, in many ways the best motivation for the young kids remains the old “carrot and stick” method. Let the child self reward when they do good jobs and have a set of punishments when they do not live up to standards.

Not much has changed when it comes to motivation over the years, except you might be taking away time playing video games instead of taking away time from playing ball with their friends.

Regardless, some of the educational quotes below will hopefully help students gain a little bit of motivation, or at least give parents and educators some ideas on applying some extrinsic motivation.

• ​ “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” – Francis Bacon
• “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
• “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”– Anthony J. D'Angelo

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D'Angelo

• “The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.” – Lindsay Kolowich
• “The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” – Confucius
• “When the student is ready, the master appears.” – Buddhist proverb

• “Everybody’s a teacher if you listen.” – Doris Roberts
• “Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.” – Rose Kennedy
• “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier
• “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.” – Dr. David M. Burns
• “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” – John Hersey
• “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

• “Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.” – Benjamin Disraeli
• “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
• “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” – Og Mandino
• “Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and diligence.” – Abigail Adams
• “A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.” – Roy H. Williams
• “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Zig Ziglar

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Zig Ziglar

Quotes About Education and Success

The section of quotes below I have titled “quotes about education and success”. These quotes deal a lot with what it takes to achieve success in learning and education.

Of course, “success” is sort of a nebulous term. What one person views as success, another might view as a failure. For some, success is raising their child to be a decent person, for another success might be making a lot of money . Or gaining fame. Or power. Or finding happiness . Ultimately success can be best defined by understanding your core values and what you value in life.

I have talked about success a lot here on this blog. It's a popular concept for people trying to change their habits because almost everybody wants to succeed in some aspect of their lives. They are trying to learn from the mistakes of others and thereby increase their own chances of success.

I have also written a lot of quote posts, similar to this one, relating to success in its many forms and giving inspiration to those seeking to succeed. If you want to check out these success quote posts, the following is a shortlist.

• 51 Success Quotes from History's Most Famous People
• 51 Achievement Quote to Inspire Your Journey to Sucess
• Great quotes on Failure and Success
• 100 Hard Work Quotes to Achieve All You Want in Life

You can also read up on few articles I have written about achieving success:

• 21 Success Habits of Highly Organized People
• 9 World Famous Successful People Who Failed and Overcame Adversity
• 43 Experts Share Their #1 Success Habit

But enough about success in general. Let’s jump right into the quotes about education and success shared below.

• “That best academy, a mother’s knee.” – James Russell Lowell
• “I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.” – Deborah Norville
• “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – WB Yeats

• “Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I’ve ever done.” – Katey Sagal
• “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum
• “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” – Dr. Seuss
• “The more certain kids are that someone’s got their back, the more confident and autonomous they can be.” – Melinda Wenner Moyer

The more certain kids are that someone’s got their back, the more confident and autonomous they can be. ” – Melinda Wenner Moyer

• “ If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.” – Lady Gaga
• “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” – Rabindranath Tagore
• “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou
• “My parents encouraged thought. You’ll get through life better if you learn how to think.” – Holly Near
• “I believe that a parent’s role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.” – David Soul
• “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass
• “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde

T he best way to make children good is to make them happy .” – Oscar Wilde

• “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson
• “Education… is painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning, by praise, but above all — by example.” – John Ruskin
• “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. – Marian Wright Edelman

Quotes About Teachers and Teaching

At the heart of education lies the most important person in the educational world: the teacher.

A good teacher can change a student’s life far out of proportion to the amount of time they spend in their lives. Of course, A bad teacher can do the same, in a negative way. But fortunately, there are far more good teachers out there than bad ones.

The teacher quotes below are in honor of all the good teachers out there and for all the good they have done for students past, present and into the future.

• ​ “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
• “Teachers are those who help us in resolving problems which, without them, we wouldn’t have.” – Unknown
• “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward

• “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese proverb
• “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” – Khalil Gibran
• “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” – John Dewey

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” – John Dewey

• “There is no single way to educate.” – Michael Gurian
• “I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein
• “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” – Gail Goldwin
• “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” – Japanese proverb
• “As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I’m the least authoritarian professor you’ll ever meet.” – Niall Ferguson
• “I’m not sayin’ I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will.” – Tupac Shakur
• “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”– Henry Brooks Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Brooks Adams

• “The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.” – John Ruskin
• “Love is a better teacher than duty.” – Albert Einstein
• “If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.” – Confucius
• “Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.” – Mickey Hart
• “The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.” – Amos Bronson Alcott

Education Quotes About Experience and Mistakes

All education in life does not come at the hands of teachers. All learning does not take place in classrooms and labs.

One of the very best teachers in life is experience. Some people refuse to learn any other way, and even those that try to carefully learn before doing things will find they are often taught surprising lessons by experience.

For most of us, experience will be one of our best teachers. We just need to be self-aware enough to notice the lessons and learn from the mistakes.

The educational quotes below talk about making mistakes and learning from them. Do this often enough and you will begin to find wisdom and happiness .

• “Experience is the teacher of all things.” – Julius Caesar
• “Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.” – Minna Antrim
• “What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.” – Wendell Phillips
• “Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” – C.S. Lewis
• “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
• “The years teach much which the days never know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.” – A. Bronson Alcott
• “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
• “This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!” – Swami Sivananda
• “Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” – Leonardo da Vinci
• “Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.” – Steve Harvey

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.” – Steve Harvey

• “But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.” – Kathy Ireland
• “Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.” – Euripides
• “The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.” – Doug Larson
• “Our ability to achieve success depends on the strength of our wings gained through knowledge and experience. The greater our knowledge and experience, the higher we can fly.” – Catherine Pulsifer
• “Your best teacher is your last mistake.” – Ralph Nader
• “Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.” – William Hazlitt

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.” – William Hazlitt

• “By crawling, a child learns to stand.” – Hausa
• “You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.” – H.G. Wells

Final Thoughts on Quotes About Education

This final section of education quotes is a short one. It has only the most famous education quote. Along with the Kennedy quote I used in the beginning of this educational quote post, there is one more quote that I personally love about learning and education…

I find this simple quote to be quite profound, and often ask myself this question when I think about my understanding of a concept. Could I explain it in ten words or less? Could I explain it to someone with no background in the subject? If the answer is no, I need to do more research.

Hopefully the quotes we showcased on this page inspired you a little to embrace the many benefits of learning and education. Taking the clay of our children and helping the parents too slowly mold children into thinking adults. It is a tough job, and often thankless. But by making this post I want to say to all teachers. Mine from the past, my child’s in the future and of course all other teachers out there.

And if you want more eye-opening quotes, be sure to check out these blog posts:

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• 51 Best Growth Mindset Quotes for Kids
• 103 Knowledge Quotes on the Importance of Always Learning

Finally, if you want to use these quotes to make a lasting change to your life, then watch this free video that details the 7-minute habit for planning your day to focus on what's truly important to you. .

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Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead. – Nora Ephron

Good Morning and thank you for the beautiful quotes, my favorite one is the one which says : The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm., keep going thank you.

it is very nice qoutes mankind can learn from

I always love Dr. Seuss saying. It is really a good thing to keep on reading and learning new things in life. Let our mind soar to that wonderful world of books and new vocabulary.

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50 Inspirational Education Quotes to Ignite Your Student Journey

Education is a powerful tool that can transform lives, shape futures, and unlock doors to endless possibilities.

Whether you’re a student embarking on your academic journey or a lifelong learner seeking wisdom, the wisdom encapsulated in education quotes can inspire, motivate, and provide guidance.

In this collection, we’ve gathered 50 remarkable education quotes that will not only resonate with students but also serve as beacons of light on your educational path.

Let’s dive into this treasure trove of wisdom.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.  Nelson Mandela

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The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.  B.B. King

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.  John Dewey

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.  Carl Rogers

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.  Benjamin Franklin

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.  William Butler Yeats

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.  Nora Ephron

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.  Eleanor Roosevelt

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.  Aristotle

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.  Malcolm X

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.  Mahatma Gandhi

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.  Steve Jobs

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.  Albert Einstein

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.  Lao Tzu

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.  John Wooden

Learning never exhausts the mind.  Leonardo da Vinci

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.  Malcolm Forbes

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.  Plutarch

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.  Winston Churchill

The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.  Brian Herbert

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.  Dr. Seuss

The expert in anything was once a beginner.  Helen Hayes

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.  B.B. King

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

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.  Franklin D. Roosevelt

In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn.  Phil Collins

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.  Oprah Winfrey

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.  Chinese Proverb

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.  John D. Rockefeller

Education is not something you can finish.  Isaac Asimov

A good education is a foundation for a better future.  Elizabeth Warren

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.  Eartha Kitt

The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.  Aristotle

Education is the movement from darkness to light.  Allan Bloom

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.  Leonardo da Vinci

Change is the end result of all true learning.  Leo Buscaglia

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Education is a lifelong journey, and these 50 inspirational quotes are your companions along the way.

Whether you’re a student, a teacher, or simply someone passionate about learning , these words of wisdom remind us that education is not just about acquiring knowledge; it’s about growth, empowerment, and the pursuit of dreams.

Let these quotes serve as your guiding light as you continue your educational adventure, and may they inspire you to reach new heights of understanding and achievement.

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50 of the Best Quotes about Education

Introduction: Education is the cornerstone of personal growth and development. Throughout history, numerous scholars, thought leaders, and educators have shared their wisdom on the importance and influence of education in our lives. Here, we’ve gathered 50 of the best quotes about education to inspire and motivate you.

1. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

2. “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.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

3. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

4. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

5. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

6. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

7. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never stop growing.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

8. “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

9. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.” – Carl Rogers

10. “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

11. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle

12. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein

13. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

14. “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” – Solomon Ortiz

15. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler

16. “In learning, you will teach; and in teaching, you will learn.” – Phil Collins

17. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

18. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein

19. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” – Henry Ford

20. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch

21. “It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.” — Agnes Repplier

22. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead

23. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris

24. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” – Aristotle

25. “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser

26. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

27. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

28. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

29. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats

30. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

31. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle

32. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch

33. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and critically.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

34. “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

35. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

40. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” – Helen Keller

41. “To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” – Theodore Roosevelt

42. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci

43. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

44. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok

45. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes

46. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” – Aristotle

47. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” – Carl Rogers

48. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia

49. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant

50. “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” – George Santayana

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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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50 Quotes About Education Every Student Should Read

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Why do people like quotes so much?

Well, the main reason why is that they are both educational and inspirational.

Here is the list of the most telling quotes about education which every student should read.

Some of them are definitely familiar while others may be totally new to you.

Quotes about education you’ve definitely heard before

The first citation is by Benjamin Franklin and it goes like this:

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

This quotation describes the necessity to acquire knowledge in the best way possible.

A lot of people like to cite it to highlight the importance of learning something new every day.

The more knowledge you have acquired, the more areas you can become an expert in, and the earlier you understand it, the faster you will realize why it is so vital to study hard when you are in college.

The second statement to mention is the following one:

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious”.

Albert Einstein said this phrase, but you probably know it all to well from your physics teacher.

Whenever you come across this quote, you remember how significant it is to stay curious about the things that surround us and about the world we live in.

This is what drives us to move forward and achieve our goals.

The next statement is one of the most inspirational quotes of all time, and it has a lot to do with teaching.

The author of the citation is William S. Burroughs and it goes like this:

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.”

The main task of a teacher at any school or university is to provide their student with a set of values.

Memorizing facts is easy.

Anyone can do it.

Learning is not merely about getting good grades and passing tests.

It is about the ability of a person to process what they have learned and to come up with their own conclusions.

Quotes you may be unfamiliar with

Perhaps, you have come across the following citation on your own or have discussed it as a part of your school curriculum but this statement by Thomas Jefferson is not quoted as often it it should be:

“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.”

In other words, getting education is the road to logic and reason that help us deal with ignorance or even aggression.

To develop as a society, we need to be educated. The final citation to mention is the one by Francis Bacon:

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

This quotation highlights the importance of traveling and seeing the world no matter how old you are.

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Here are 45 more great quotes on education. Enjoy!

“The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” Confucius.

“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

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”  John Wooden

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potentials. ”  John Maxwell

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver.

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

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” Anthony J.1 D’Angelo  

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Aristotle

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” Albert Einstein.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ” Nelson Mandela

“Strive for Progress, Not perfection.” Unknown

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” Seuss

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” Marian Wright Edelman .

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”  Kofi Annan.

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” Henry Ford.

“Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.”  Ron Lewis

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” Will Durant.

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” Beverly Sills

“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 .

“Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.”  P. J. Abdul Kalam.

“Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.”  Sir Anthony Seldon.

“No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.”  Brad Henry.

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” Robert Frost.

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.”  William S. Burroughs

“The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.”  Lindsay Kolowich

“With an education you all have everything you need to rise above all of the noise and fulfil every last one of your dreams.”  Michelle Obama.

“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

“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.

“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

“A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.” Charles B. Rangel.

“Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.” Jim Rohn.

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” George Lorimer.

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” Abraham Lincoln.

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”  Rabindranath Tagore

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”  Chanakya.

“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.”  Helen Keller

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”   Malcolm X

“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” Mahatma Gandhi.

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison.

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius.

“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”  Benjamin Disraeli.

“Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.”  Maria Montessori.

“Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.”  William Glasser

“Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.”  Ed Markey

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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.

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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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50 Inspirational Education Quotes to Spark a Love of Learning

Welcome to our collection of education quotes, where we have gathered some of the most enlightening and thought-provoking words on the topic of learning and education. These quotes come from some of the most renowned educators, philosophers, and leaders in history, and they offer valuable insights and wisdom on the importance of education and its role in shaping our lives.

Education is not just about acquiring knowledge and skills, but it’s also about developing critical thinking, creativity, and the ability to navigate through life’s challenges. These quotes cover a wide range of topics related to education, such as the power of learning, the importance of curiosity, and the role of education in personal and societal growth.

These quotes remind us of the importance of lifelong learning and the role it plays in shaping our minds and our future. They encourage us to never stop learning and to always strive for self-improvement. Whether you’re a student, a teacher, or just someone who is passionate about learning, we hope that these quotes will inspire you to continue on your journey of education and personal growth.

Education Quotes

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats

“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.

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” – Albert Einstein

“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” – Robert M. Hutchins

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” – Carl Rogers

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

“Education is not the key to success, education is the key to change.” – Will Smith

“The true test of education is not how much you know, but how you feel and act.” – Unknown

“Education is not a destination, it’s a journey.” – Unknown

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. – Albert Einstein

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

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. 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

“Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” – Chinese proverb

“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

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

“Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” – John Hersey

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” – Bill Nye

“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” – Conrad Hall

“Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.” ― Anton Chekhov

“A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ― Jim Rohn

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” ― Michel Legrand

“Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.” – Hebrew Proverb

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” ― Malala Yousafzai

“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” – George Evans

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” – Voltaire

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”― Albert Einstein

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

“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

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” — Henry Ford

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” ― B.B. King

“All things good to know are difficult to learn.” – Greek proverb

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William Burroughs

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” – Epictetus

“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

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