Education Quotes
Education quotes explore different styles of both teaching and learning. The best teachers are just like quotes: they inspire. Make a commitment to life-long learning and understand the biggest classroom in the world is this experience called ‘life’.
Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.
Dianne Ackerman
Fear is priceless education.
Lance Armstrong
Self education is, I firmy believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.
Charlotte Joko Beck
A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.
Smiley Blanton
Teach them how to fly.
Dan Chesbro
The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Marva Collins
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people 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 Coolidge
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.
Peter F. Drucker
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether 20 or 80, anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
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
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
John Harvey
We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.
John Holt
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Learning is movement from moment to moment.
Krishnamurti
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it…The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.
Abraham Maslow
It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More than 145 million of the world’s children are deprived of education due to poverty, exploitation, slavery, gender discrimination, religious extremism, and corrupt governments. May Three Cups of Tea be a catalyst to bring the gift of literacy to each of those children who deserves a chance to go to school.
Greg Mortenson
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.
Wendell Phillips
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.
Jean Piaget
Do not…keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.
Plato
Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
Plato
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to discover the natural bent.
Plato
Philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
When plannnig for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.
Chinese Proverb
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
Sir Ken Robinson
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim Rohn
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Pete Seeger
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Merle Shain
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher
The best teachers are the best storytellers. We learn in the form of stories.
Frank Smith
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck
Science is the storytelling of our time.
William Irwin Thompson
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Mark Twain
The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.
Vauvenargues
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
Denis Waitley
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
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
Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell Willkie
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
Oprah Winfrey
Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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