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.
The importance of a good education cannot be said enough.
Best Education Quotes
1.) When one teaches, two learn.
Robert Half
2.) Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Yeats
3.) Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.
Dr. Seuss
4.) One must be a student before one can be a teacher.
Chinese Proverb
5.) One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
Goethe
6.) There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller
7.) A very little key will open a very heavy door.
Charles Dickens
8.) 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
9.) He who opens a school door closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
10.) Knowledge, which is acquired under compulsion, obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
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Education Sayings
11.) Children have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn Coats
12.) Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
13.) By learning, you will teach; by teaching, you will learn.
Latin Proverb
14.) The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
15.) 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
16.) Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams
17.) Cauliflower is just a cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
18.) A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
Chinese Proverb
19.) Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Goethe
20.) Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Aristotle
21.) Learning is a treasure that accompanies its owner everywhere.
Chinese Proverb
22.) A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
23.) If you want happiness for a lifetime, help the next generation.
Chinese Proverb
24.) My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
25.) Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
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Inspirational Education Quotes
26.) What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
Thomas Jefferson
27.) The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
28.) Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
29.) Example isn’t another way to teach; it is the only way to teach.
Albert Einstein
30.) 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
31.) 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
32.) 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
33.) What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Joseph Addison
34.) Education makes a people easy to lead
but difficult to drive: easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Peter Brougham
35.) A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.
Fred Rogers
Nelson Mandela Education Quote
36.) Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Smart Kids Quotations
37.) The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
38.) 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
39.) 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
40.) Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle
Life Long Learning
41.) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
42.) 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
43.) A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope
44.) All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
Martin H. Fischer
45.) 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
Maria Montessori Quotes
46.) To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop and unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
47.) Education is not something which the teacher does …it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
48.) 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.
49.) Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
Quotes on Schools
50.) A book is like a garden carried in a pocket.
Chinese Proverb
51.) To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu
52.) 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
53.) Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing; the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
54.) Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Confucius
55.) 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
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
Famous Education Quotes
57.) 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
58.) A man is never too old to learn.
Chinese Proverb
59.) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Goethe
60.) You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
Galileo
61.) 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
62.) Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
Thomas Paine
63.) 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
64.) The more you use your mind, the more you’ll have to use.
George A. Dorsey
65.) 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
66.) To encourage literature and the arts is a duty that every good citizen owes to his country.
George Washington
67.) The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
68.) Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo
69.) 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
70.) One learns by doing a thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles
71.) Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana
72.) Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
73.) Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
74.) Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
75.) My grandmother wanted me to have an education. That’s why she kept me out of school.
Margaret Mead
76.) Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis
77.) 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
Here are some education quotes on teachers.
78.) I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think.
Socrates
79.) A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann
80.) It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
81.) History of humanity is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
82.) Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
83.) It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Quotes about Education
84.) Education is learning what you didn’t know, even know you didn’t know.
Daniel Boorstin
85.) Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes
86.) Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
87.) 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
88.) Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill
89.) I learned most not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
St. Augustine
90.) What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
91.) The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
92.) 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
93.) Education is soul crafting.
Cornel West
94.) If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
Henry Ford
95.) Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain — and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
96.) Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Japanese Proverb
97.) Education is a continual process; it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal, you don’t go forward.
George Weah
98.) The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato
99.) The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.
Plutarch
For Teachers
100.) The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King
101.) The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
102.) 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
103.) I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein
104.) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese Proverb
105.) Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov
Quotes on Teaching
106.) 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
107.) Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
108.) It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
109.) Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Solomon Ortiz
110.) If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
Ignacio Estrada
111.) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
112.) The best teachers are those that show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.
Alexandra K. Trenfor
113.) Education is understanding relationships.
George Washington Carver
114.) It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Educate Quotes
115.) Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
116.) A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams
117.) Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
Joyce Meyer
118.) Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
Charles Kuralt
119.) The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren
120.) People seldom see the halting and painful steps at which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
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Instructors
121.) What the teacher is is more important than what he teaches.
Karl A. Menninger
122.) It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
123.) They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it.
Nicholas Sparks
124.) A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
Helen Keller
125.) 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
126.) School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
Funny Quotations on Education
Funny education quotes are great for many settings. Consider the following.
127.) Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
Pete Seeger
128.) It takes ten years to grow trees but a hundred years to rear people.
Chinese Proverb
129.) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
130.) I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
131.) People learn something every day, and a lot of times, it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan
132.) 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
Get inspired with these education quotes.
133.) Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
134.) Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia
135.) Man’s mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
136.) I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
Steve Irwin
137.) The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
138.) Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.
William Crawford
139.) Teach me, and I remember. Involve me, and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
140.) The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
141.) Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
142.) I am still learning.
Michelangelo
143.) Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
Important Education Quotes
144.) The roots of education& are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
145.) Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
146.) Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
147.) Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.
John Holt
148.) 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
149.) Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
150.) A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Notable Education Quotes
151.) Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
152.) Spoonfeeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster
153.) 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
154.) One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
155.) An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
156.) Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya
Power of Education
157.) Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King
158.) Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
159.) The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King
160.) Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver
161.) A good education is a foundation for a better future.
Elizabeth Warren
162.) 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
163.) Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
164.) 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
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 Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market, most of which deal with wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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