Education Quotes to Inspire
These education quotes will give you all the reasons to realize the importance of education, learning, and teachers in your life.
Best Education Quotes
When one teaches, two learn.
Robert Half
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Yeats
Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.
Dr. Seuss
One must be a student before one can be a teacher.
Chinese Proverb
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
Goethe
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
Charles Dickens
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
He who opens a school door closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
Knowledge, which is acquired under compulsion, obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
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Education Sayings
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn Coats
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
By learning, you will teach; by teaching, you will learn.
Latin Proverb
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you make the finding yourself–even if you are the last person on Earth to see the light–you will never forget it.
Carl Sagan
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Great Teacher Quotes
Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams
Cauliflower is just a cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
Chinese Proverb
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Goethe
Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Aristotle
Learning is a treasure that accompanies its owner everywhere.
Chinese Proverb
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help the next generation.
Chinese Proverb
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
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Education Sayings
What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
Thomas Jefferson
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Example isn’t another way to teach; it is the only way to teach.
Albert Einstein
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
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Quotes on Education
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need the motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn
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
What sculpture is to a block of marble
education is to the human soul.
Joseph Addison
Education makes a people easy to lead
but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Peter Brougham
Nelson Mandela Education Quote
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Smart Kids Quotations
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
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
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low, and we reach it.
Michelangelo
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle
Educational Sayings
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
Martin H. Fischer
Maria Montessori Quotes
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
Education is not something which the teacher does …it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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.
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
Quotes on Schools
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu
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
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing; the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Confucius
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
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
Famous Education Quotes
Where are gone those older spirits in education who knew and taught boldly that school is an apprenticeship, and a hard one, for a life harder yet? And that prayer is necessary not to escape burdens but for strength, the better to carry them?
Martin H. Fischer
A man is never too old to learn.
Chinese Proverb
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Goethe
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
Galileo
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
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
Thomas Paine
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however, measured or far away.
Thoreau
Learning Quotations
The more you use your mind, the more you’ll have to use.
George A. Dorsey
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching but prevented me from being educated to an extent that infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
George Bernard Shaw
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty that every good citizen owes to his country.
George Washington
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end, you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.
Mark Twain
Educational Quotes
One learns by doing a thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
My grandmother wanted me to have an education. That’s why she kept me out of school.
Margaret Mead
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis
A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image but to develop students who can create their own image.
Unknown
On Teachers
I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think.
Socrates
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann
It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
History of humanity is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Quote about Education
Education is learning what you didn’t know, even know you didn’t know.
Daniel Boorstin
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
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
Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
St. Augustine
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.
Louis Pasteur
Quotes on Learning
Education is soul crafting.
Cornel West
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
Henry Ford
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain — and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Japanese Proverb
Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.
George Weah
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato
For Teachers
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
Do not train children to learn 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
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese Proverb
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov
Quotes on Teaching
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Lord Alexander
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Solomon Ortiz
If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
Ignacio Estrada
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
The best teachers are those that show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.
Alexandra K. Trenfor
Education is understanding relationships.
George Washington Carver
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Educate Quotes
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams
Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
Joyce Meyer
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
Charles Kuralt
People seldom see the halting and painful steps at which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
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Instructors
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Karl A. Menninger
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it.
Nicholas Sparks
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
Helen Keller
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth.’
Dan Rather
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
Funny Quotations on Education
Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
Pete Seeger
It takes ten years to grow trees but a hundred years to rear people.
Chinese Proverb
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
People learn something every day, and a lot of times, it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho Marx
Motivational Education Quotes
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia
Man’s mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
Steve Irwin
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.
William Crawford
Inspirational Quotes
Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
I am still learning.
Michelangelo
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
Education And Learning
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
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.
John Holt
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
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
Wisdom of Education
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
Spoonfeeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster
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
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Power of Education
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King
Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver
A good education is a foundation for a better future.
Elizabeth Warren
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 Importance of Education
Education has become an integral part of human life – something as important as food, shelter, and clothes. Education helps you evolve. It helps you think rationally and improves your position in life and society.
An educated person can lead a healthier lifestyle, make his own decisions independently, follow ethical values, contribute to society’s growth, and make his community a safer and better place.
Philosophers, leaders, and men of science have always emphasized the importance of education in society. Education removes all limitations and opens your mind to new possibilities and a better world. It is education that carves out a sculpture out of a stone.
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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