The 100 Greatest Education Quotes

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A child who is not educated is a lost child.

John F. Kennedy

Good teachers must be able put themselves in the shoes of learners who find it difficult to learn.

Eliphas Levi

Liberal education is central to civil society. Teaching is also an integral part of liberal education.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life.

Unknown author

To the curious mind, the entire world is a laboratory.

Martin H. Fischer

The best dividends are earned by investing in knowledge.

Benjamin Franklin

Around here, we don’t look backwards for very long… We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education…to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

John Adams

A day with a great instructor is better than a thousand years of diligent study.

Japanese Proverb

Not only must children be educated but also they should be allowed to do their own research.

Ernest Dimnet

Children should be taught how to think, and not what to think.

Margaret Mead

Don’t limit your children to your learning; they were created in another time.

Chinese Proverb

Are you a true scholar? There is something I can learn from every man; in that, I am his student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach them to ask questions.

George Carlin

EducationIt aims to help you climb the ladder of knowledge. It can often give you cramps on one of its rungs.

Martin H. Fischer

EducationIt costs money but ignorance is also costly.

Claus Moser

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EducationIt is better than a standing arm army to safeguard liberty.

Edward Everett

EducationIt is a gradual discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

EducationIt is a way to prevent violence.

Edward James Olmos

EducationIt is not the filling of a pan but the lighting of an open fire.

William Butler Yeats

EducationEducation is not preparation for the future; it is living.

John Dewey

EducationThis is not filling a pail, but lighting a flame.

William Butler Yeats

EducationIt is the soul of a society that passes from one generation onto another.

G.K. Chesterton

EducationIt is the ability listen to almost any topic without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Robert Frost

EducationThe key to unlocking freedom’s golden door is your keys.

George Washington Carver

EducationThe most powerful weapon that you can use to transform the world is your imagination.

Nelson Mandela

EducationThis is what one can do after forgetting what they learned in school.

Albert Einstein

EducationIt is what remains after all that has been learned has been forgotten.

B.F. Skinner

Education is… doing anything that changes you.

George B. Leonard

EducationIt is important to exercise. Massage has taken over.

Martin H. Fischer

EducationIt would be more effective if it was designed to make sure that every boy and girl knows everything they don’t know and has a lifetime desire to learn.

William Haley

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G.M. Trevelyan

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Every child deserves a champion. An adult who is committed to them, understands the power and will do everything in their power to help them become the best they can be.

Rita Pierson

If you want to close a school, you’ll need to build one. You will lose what you have gained at one end. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.

Mark Twain

Friendship is a broad horizon, which expands as we approach it.

E.R. Hazlip

Teaching is only one-fourth preparation, while theatre is three-fourths.

Gail Goldwin

He who opens the school door, closes the prison.

Victor Hugo

I am not a teacher but an awakener.

Robert Frost

I cannot tell anyone anything. I can only make people think.

Socrates

I did then what was easy. Now that I’m better informed, I do better.

Maya Angelou

I have never allowed my schooling to interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

I have read Shakespeare and The Bible. I also can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.

Tallulah Bankhead

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.

Aeschylus

Plan for a year. Sow rice. If you plan to plant trees for a decade. If you are looking for a lifetime, educate others.

Chinese Proverb

Try ignorance if you believe education is too expensive.

Derek Bok

It’s better to have common sense and not to learn than to have education.

Robert G. Ingersoll

It’ll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants, and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.

Author unknown

Failures and mistakes are part of learning.

Vladimir Lenin

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Learning never ends.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. You should live as if forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Logic will take you from A to Z. You can’t go wrong with imagination.

Albert Einstein

Minds work like parachutes.

James Dewar

My vision of education is to disturb the minds and inflame the intellects of the young.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Recently, nations were able to borrow billions for their wars; however, education has never been a major focus of the nation’s borrowing. Most likely, no nation has the financial resources to finance both war and civilisation. We have to make our choices.

Abraham Flexner

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

Once you are able to ask the right questions, relevant, pertinent and substantial questions, you can learn how to learn. No one can stop you from learning what you want.

Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner

Only a few generations of readers can produce a generation worth of writers.

Steven Spielberg

Only those who are determined to learn must be educated. All else is just sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

Teach the children, so that it is not necessary to teach them the adults.

Abraham Lincoln

Teachers can open the doors, but you must go in by yourself.

Chinese Proverb

Teaching is not just about imparting knowledge, it’s also about inspiring change.

William Arthur Ward

Learning is not just about learning facts, it’s also about understanding.

William Arthur Ward

Tell me, and I forget; teach me, and I may recall; involve me, and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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TheTeaching is essentially about teaching people what they need.

Carl Rogers

TheLearning is a beautiful thing.

B.B. B.B.

TheThe best education is the one that you get by working hard to make a living.

Wendell Phillips

TheEducation is meant to make one think more deeply and more critically. True education is about character and intelligence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatest sign of a success for a teacher…is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.”

Maria Montessori

TheCare is the hardest thing to learn.

Unknown

TheThe teacher is mediocre. TheGood teachers explain. TheA superior teacher is a great example. TheGreat teachers inspire.

William A. Ward

TheMind is not something to be filled with, but rather a flame to be lit.

Plutarch

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

Dr. Seuss

TheEducation is about preparing the young for lifelong learning.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

TheEducation should not be about repeating the mistakes of previous generations.

Jean Piaget

TheAmerica should not be willing to save money on school.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

TheThe secret to success in education is respecting each student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

TheTrue wisdom is not a teacher that invites you into the house, but rather guides you to the threshold.

Kahlil Gibran

TheEducation’s whole purpose is to transform mirrors into glass.

Sydney J. Harris

TheThe world is a book, and people who don’t travel read one page.

Augustine of Hippo

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No friend is as loyal as a good book.

Ernest Hemingway

For the uninformed, an A means just three sticks.

A.A. Milne

Many of our children are unable to read. Reading is the building block and must be the foundation of education reform.

President George W. Bush

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

B. F. Skinner

Education is like sculpture to a block in marble.

Joseph Addison

We never forget what we have learned with joy.

Alfred Mercier

We want to see the child as a seeker of knowledge and not as a seeker of knowledge.

George Bernard Shaw

Our libraries cost much less than an ignorant nation, regardless of their quality.

Walter Cronkite

Learn and teach. Give when you get.

Maya Angelou

Why should society feel only responsible for the educations of children and not all adults of every age?

Erich Fromm

It is impossible to be too educated or overdressed.

Oscar Wilde

A student can be taught a lesson once in a while, but if you are able to teach him by inspiring curiosity, he will continue learning as long as he is alive.

Clay P. Bedford

You educate a woman; you educate a woman. You educate a man; you educate the next generation.

Brigham Young

EducationThis is not the way of showing people how to achieve what they want. EducationIt is a way for men to learn what it is worth and how to do it.

Ronald Reagan

EducationThis is not a problem. EducationIt is a chance.

Lyndon Johnson

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