Education - Quotes & Sayings
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
AristotleThe goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
Jean PiagetEducation is the foundation upon which we build our future.
Christine GregoireYou have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
Michelle ObamaEducation is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan BloomEducation is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington CarverI've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Good questions outrank easy answers.
Paul SamuelsonNothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin CoolidgeEducation is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Shakuntala DeviI have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert EinsteinChange is the end result of all true learning.
Leo BuscagliaKnowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi AnnanEducation is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Solomon OrtizEducation comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Napoleon HillThe aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Ralph IngeA person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark TwainEducation is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert EinsteinThe roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
AristotleEducation is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John DeweyDevelop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'AngeloAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinEducation is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm XEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson MandelaEarly childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
Maria MontessoriMusic is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
PlatoThere is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiDon't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath TagoreYou are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
Conrad HallThe aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. BurroughsGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
MaimonidesEducation is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler YeatsLearning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail AdamsThe best education I have ever received was through travel.
Lisa LingThe highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen KellerA thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore RooseveltEveryone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Sidney HookEducation is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.
Alex TabarrokEducation without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. LewisIn the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark TwainYou have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
Carol BurnettEducation is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
Bob BeauprezAttitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Charles R. SwindollThe whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. HarrisChildren need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.
Colin PowellHumans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
Neil deGrasse TysonAny man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert EinsteinThe philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham LincolnGood manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas