Back To School Quotes and Captions
These back-to-school quotes reinforce the importance of education and pay tribute to that time of year when students and teachers are usually a little anxious.
From Abraham Lincoln to Bill Watterson, this collection includes funny, famous, and inspirational quotes on school, education, and that back-to-school time period.
Below the listed quotes, check out our fun back-to-school captions. Enjoy.
Ten Best Back To School Quotes
1.) Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
2.) There’s more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island.
Walt Disney
3.) School is a building which has four walls with tomorrow inside.
Lon Watters
4.) Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle
5.) Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
6.) Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today’s world—an assigned parking space.
Gene Perret
7.) We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
Peter De Vries
8.) If you think your teachers are tough, wait ‘til you get a boss.
Bill Gates
9.) 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
10.) What we learn with pleasure, we never forget.
Alfred Mercier
Memorable Back To School Quotes
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I’ve always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.
Jenny Han
Education doesn’t make us smarter. It makes us whole.
Jill Biden
If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.
Zig Ziglar
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
Ken Robinson
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Good Back To School Quotations
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Confucius
You educate a man; you educate a man. (When) You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Brigham Young
I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study would be about the same as getting into paradise.
Booker T. Washington
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
Brian Herbert
A new school year means new beginnings, new adventures, new friendships, and new challenges. The slate is clean, and anything can happen.
Denise Witmer
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids to work together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
Alan Cohen
When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.
Dalai Lama
For there is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.
Amanda Gorman
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Funny Back To School Quotes
Respect your parents. They passed school without Google.
Anonymous
You can drag my body to school, but my spirit refuses to go.
Bill Watterson
I’ll just say it: I’m not the sharpest tool in the box. Being forced to go back to school is still a fear of mine.
Will Poulter
I would enjoy school more if I were allowed to bring a pillow.
Unknown
In school, they told me, ‘Practice makes perfect.’ And then they told me, ‘Nobody’s perfect,’ so then I stopped practicing.
Steven Wright
On the first day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.
Jordan Francis
A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.
Darwin D. Martin
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.
George Bernard Shaw
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Amusing Back To School Sayings
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school, I was so smart; my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen
What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. Watt
School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation’s over, school is here.
Winifred C. Marshall
I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.
Kim Harrison
Short Back To School Quotes
I like learning new skills and the feeling of going back to school.
Edith Bowman
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
He who opens a school door closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
Ray LeBlond
A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.
Smiley Blanton
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia
Be so good they can’t ignore you.
Steve Martin
Every class is drama class when you’re in high school.
Timothy Bird.
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
Mark Twain
What we learn becomes a part of who we are.
Kathy R. Jeffords
Education is the key to opportunity.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.
Carol Burnett
School is the easiest job you’ll ever have.
Marty Klezmer
The future of the world is in my classroom today.
Ivan Welton Fitzwater
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Interesting School Quotes
Intelligence plus character — that is the true goal of education.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done: school and prison.
William Glasser.
Asking your children about their fears or worries about going back to school will help them share their burdens.
Chuck Norris
Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible.’
Audrey Hepburn
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
If you want to know what society’s going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.
Clifford Stoll
Notable Back To School Quotes
You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!
Dr. Suess
High school is all about finding who you are because that’s more important than trying to be someone else.
Nick Jonas
The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
Joseph Campbell
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B King
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
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
Inspirational Quotes for Students
Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
Conan O’Brien
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pele
Don’t be afraid to start over. It’s a new chance to rebuild what you want.
Unknown
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t love so that you can do what you love.
Unknown
This is a new year—a new beginning. And things will change.
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I know I can be what I wanna be. If I work hard at it, I’ll be where I wanna be.
Nas
When we empower girls hungry for education, we cultivate women who are emboldened to effect change within their communities and globally.
Meghan Markle
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan
Inspiring Insights
You have to stay in school. You have to. (And) you have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from is your education. And it’s worth the investment.
Michelle Obama
A good education is a foundation for a better future.
Elizabeth Warren
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.
Harry Wong
What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.
Terry Williams
Motivational Back To School Quotes
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
Oprah Winfrey
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
Education is the difference between wishing you could help other people and being able to help them.
Russell M. Nelson
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher
I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy—I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.
Art Williams
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.
Marvin Phillips
You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
Les Brown
Motivating Sayings About Education
We all must make the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Dumbledore
If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.
Marty Mcfly
Struggling is a part of learning. If it’s simple or simply done, you’re probably not learning anything.
Unknown
You are allowed to scream. You are allowed to cry. But, you are not allowed to give up.
Unknown
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Winnie the Pooh
I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.
Ruth Simmons
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Japanese Proverb
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
Famous Back To School Quotes
Education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein
I gave myself a year to be a supermodel. And I said, ‘If it doesn’t happen, I’m going back to school.’
Tyra Banks
I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
Fiona Apple
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, rather than to load the memory with thoughts of other people.
Bill Beattie
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. (And) You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
Dr.Seuss
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James Baldwin
Time to rise. Time for school! Open your eyes.
Tammie Jones
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
Steve Irwin
It’s one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.
Dana Perino
It’s good to learn. Nobody can ever take that away from you.
Estelle Okeon
Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it’s just teaching you to stand up the next time.
Joel Edgerton
I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird
First Day of School Quotes
One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world.
Malala Yousufzai
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over.
Richard Branson
Be silly. Be honest. (And) Be kind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
Oprah Winfrey
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Edison
Learn as much as you can while you are young since life becomes too busy later.
Dana Stewart Scott
Education Quotations
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
Conrad Hall
When you educate one person, you can change a life. When you educate many, you can change the world.
Shai Reshef
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert M. Hutchins
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Learning Quotes
With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. (And) you spend a little time learning what it’s like to live in someone else’s shoes.
John Irving
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Solomon Ortiz
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
Helen Keller
Learn as much as you can while you are young since life becomes too busy later.
Dana Stewart Scott
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe
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
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Josef Albers
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
Quotes about Schooling
I’m not going to school just for academics. I wanted to share the ideas and to be around people who are passionate about learning.
Emma Watson
On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know, the teacher is saying, ‘I hope you all like where you’re sitting because these are your permanent seats.’
Jeff Kinney
You can’t do it alone. Be open to collaboration. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you. Spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Amy Poehler
One day middle school will end and become high school and after that it just becomes life. All those things you think are important now won’t be anymore.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I’ll take with me the rest of my life.
Giancarlo Stanton
Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
Work hard, nap hard.
Demi Lovato
No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.
Saul Bellow
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Back To School Quotes FAQs
Here are some frequently asked questions about back-to-school quotes.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” by Nelson Mandela.
“The more you read, the more you’ll know. The more you know, the more places you’ll go,” by Dr. Seuss, a.k.a., Theodor Geisel.
“Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I remember. Involve me, and I learn,” by Benjamin Franklin, and “One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world,” by Malala Yousufzai are two of the best.
Back To School Captions
2 Cool 4 School
Teacher? I prefer the term “Educational Rockstar!”
Pain is temporary. GPA is forever!
Be kind and make friends!
Don’t look back; you’re not going that way.
Make yourself proud.
Nothing good comes from the comfort zone.
“Don’t lick the desk!” (Just another Monday.)
It’s not that I hate school. I just hate waking up early in the morning!
Now when you get there, act like somebody!
Make today so brilliant that yesterday gets jealous.
Be educated, be cool.
You are capable of anything!
Don’t be afraid to ask questions.
Feeling those school vibes!
Instagram Captions on Back To School
Teach from the heart, not from the book.
Oh, college, where Monday could feel like a Friday.
I teach Wild Things.
Get up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.
You can!
Teachers gonna teach!
Maybe Monday doesn’t like you either!
Teacher of All Things.
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. (Colleen Wilcox)
When nothing goes right, go left.
School’s out for summer!
Roses are red; school is long!
Get up with determination!
Can’t keep calm; it’s my first day of school.
When someone says you can’t do it, do it twice and take pictures.
Don’t stop until you’re proud!
I love you, school. Now please love me back!
Thank you, next semester!
To-do list: stay awake!
Study hard, do good, and a good life will follow.
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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