Top 94 Education Quotes

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Education is an important foundation in life. However, how you go about it can be very different. With that in mind, check out the top 94 education quotes.

#94 – 90. Education Quotes

94. Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. – John Dewey

93. The giving of love is an education in itself. – Eleanor Roosevelt

92. Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. ― Walter Cronkite

91. No matter how he may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. – Frances Willard

90. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ― Mahatma Gandhi

#89 – 80. Education Quotes

89. I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. – Jeffrey Archer

88. Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. – Claude Bernard

87. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. – Roger Lewin

86. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. ― Muriel Spark

85. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

84. Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo Da Vinci

83. To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. – Hannah Arendt

82. Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. – Chinese proverb

81. There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. – John Adams

80. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ― W.B. Yeats

#79 – 70. Education Quotes

79. I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child. – Ann Brashares

78. Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. – Louisa May Alcott

77. The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice. – James Clear

76. They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. – Malala Yousafzai

75. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. – Maya Angelou

74. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela

73. Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! – Matthew Arnold

72. Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. – Confucius

71. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X

70. Children just need the time, space, and permission to be kids. – Angela Hanscom

#69 – 60. Education Quotes

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

68. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. – Lao Tzu

67. Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. – Aristotle

66. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain

65. He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ― Victor Hugo

64. The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited. – Plutarch

63. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. – Kofi Annan

62. Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. – Harold Hulbert

61. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. – B. F. Skinner 

60. The more you make it easy for your kids, the more your remove the struggle necessary for learning. – Maxime Lagacé

#59 – 50. Education Quotes

59. A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. – Mark Twain

58. Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

57. Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. – John Holt

56. They know enough who know how to learn. – Henry Adams

55. It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. – Agnes Repplierg

54. I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright

53. Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. – Maya Angelou

52. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. – Aristotle

51. Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. – Dr. W. Edwards Deming

50. Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge. – Naval Ravikant

#49 – 40. Education Quotes

49. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. – James Baldwin

48. Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. – John Hersey

47. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ― Thomas Jefferson

46. A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Cicero

45. If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. – Susan B. Anthony

44. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. – Margaret Mead

43. It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin

42. Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. – Ernest Dimnet

41. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams

40. The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. – Maya Angelou

#39 – 30. Education Quotes

39. Education is the ability to meet life’s situations. – Dr. John G. Hibben

38. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. – Aristotle

37. 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

36. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. – Martin Luther King Jr.

35. Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe. – Sir Anthony Seldon

34. A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. – George Santayana

33. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. –  Benjamin Franklin

32. People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. – Socrates

31. Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. – Chinese proverb

30. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – Edward Everett

#29 – 20. Education Quotes

29. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. – Joseph Addison

28. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ― C.S. Lewis

27. What we must look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability. – Thomas Arnold

26. Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams

25. Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. – Benjamin Franklin

24. 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

23. America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. – Jane Addams

22. 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.’ – Maria Montessori

21. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Cicero

20. The learning process continues until the day you die. – Kirk Douglas

#19 – 10. Education Quotes

19. Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. – Marian Wright Edelman

18. Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty–how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes. – Henry Ward Beecher

17. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. – John Dewey

16. Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. – Thomas Szasz

15. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

14. I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. – Walt Disney

13. Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. – Anatole France

12. Essentialists hope that when students leave school, they will possess not only basic skills and an extensive body of knowledge, but also disciplined, practical minds, capable of applying schoolhouse lessons in the real world. – William C. Bagley

11. Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. – Naval Ravikant

10. Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. –  Og Mandino

#9 – 1. Education Quotes

9. Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. – Glenn Beck

8. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. – Albert Einstein

7. 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

6. Education is the best provision for old age. – Aristotle

5. Change is the end result of all true learning. – Leo Buscaglia

4. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. ― Aristotle

3. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle

2. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ― Robert Frost

1. I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. – Annie Dillard

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