Education Quotes
Education opens up the mind, expands it and allows you to improve your life in so many ways. Education is one of the most powerful things in life. It helps us to find the meaning behind everything and helps improve lives in a massive way.
We have compiled a collection of inspirational quotes about education. You can share with your loved ones to motivate them on the importance of education and the role it plays in our lives.
60 Insightful Education Quotes & Sayings
“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 the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
Malcolm X
Malcolm X
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”~~Ben Franklin
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. –Aristotle
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ― W.B. Yeats
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. – Kofi Annan
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.“__Marian Wright Edelman
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. – John Dewey
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”Will Durant
A child miseducated is a child lost.__John F. Kennedy
“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
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – Edward Everett
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.“_Jim Rohn
“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
“One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I’ve spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I’ve always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.“__Condoleezza Rice
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.“__Herbert Spencer
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. – Anatole France
“The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.“~~Leo Buscaglia
“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
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
_Maimonides
_Maimonides
“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
“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity.“
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez
“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.“__Chanakya
“No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.“~~Bobby Scott
“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
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” ― Robert Frost
“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
They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. – Malala Yousafzai
“Education is all a matter of building bridges.“_Ralph Ellison
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. – John Hersey
“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
__Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.__Albert Einstein
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”__Clay P. Bedford
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself” – Chinese Proverb
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
“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
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.- Agnes Repplierg
“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
“I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.“__Andy Rooney
“The mere imparting of information is not education.“__Carter G. Woodson
“You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.“__Malcolm X
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. – Conrad Hall
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.__Oscar Wilde
“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”__Alfred Mercier
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. – Albert Einstein
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.“Malcolm Forbes
“Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.” – George Weah
“A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.” ― Anne Bishop
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”__Victor Hugo
“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
The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”– Dr. Seuss
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.“__Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.“
Peter Brougham
Peter Brougham
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”__Andy McIntyre
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” ~~G.K. Chesterton
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” ― C.S. Lewis
“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
William Haley
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.“
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.”
Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers