Education Quotes

Instruction does much, but encouragement everyt

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All I have learned, I learned from books.

~ Abraham Lincoln

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.

~ Claire Fagin

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

~ Robert Orben

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

~ Jacob Bronowski

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

~ Malala Yousafzai

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

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

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli

~ Arthur C. Clarke

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

~ Jostein Gaarder

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

~ James Allen

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

~ Albert Einstein

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. Leadership qualities are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.

~ John Holt

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

~ Abigail Adams

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

~ Brigham Young

When asked What do we need to learn this for? any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.

~ David Sedaris

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

~ Isaac Asimov

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

~ H.g. Wells

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

~ Richard Feynman

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

~ Mark Twain

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

~ Jacques Barzun

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

~ George Washington

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

~ Peter S. Jennison

Play is the highest form of research.

~ Albert Einstein

We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

~ Chris Hedges

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states accountable for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

~ Ron Paul

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

~ Herman Melville

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

~ John Taylor Gatto

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

~ Thomas Carlyle

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.

~ Jean Piaget

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

~ Ken Robinson

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

~ Malala Yousafzai

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

~ Harry Truman