Top 55 Education Quotes


We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

Socrates

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.

Chinese proverb

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Jane Austen

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

W.B. Yeats

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn


In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Phil Collins

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Robert Frost

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

Kofi Annan

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Andy McIntyre

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey


The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

James Madison

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Leo Buscaglia

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Martin Luther

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry B Adams

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Horace Mann

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

Aristotle

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

John W. Gardner


The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

George Santayana

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Malcolm X

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

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 task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

C.S. Lewis

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

Khaled Hosseini

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum.

Michel de Montaigne


Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Abigail Adams

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

Erich Fromm

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

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Aristotle

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Alan K. Simpson

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.

Adolf Hitler

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

James Baldwin


True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Abigail Van Buren

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

Walter Cronkite

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

A. J. Jacobs

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

Aristotle

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