Education Quotes

Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The most important duty of a teacher is to not only teach but to also inspire and enhance the desire for learning.

~ Debasish Mridha

Formal education opens the world to you, contemplation and reflection open yourself to you.

~ Debasish Mridha

A formal education will give you knowledge, self-education will give you wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha

A great teacher not only teaches, they cultivate green fields to grow beautiful flowers to spread the fragrance of peace, happiness, and prosperity.

~ Debasish Mridha

Knowledge is NOT power. The correct application of knowledge is power.

~ Izey Victoria Odiase

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

~ Amit Kalantri

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

~ Amit Kalantri

To eradicate blindness, let us create opportunities for everyone to get an education.

~ Debasish Mridha

A great teacher is one that helps their students to become great. In return, the students appreciate the teacher for their success.

~ Debasish Mridha

A teacher can change a life just with appreciation and love.

~ Debasish Mridha

Education is not only filling the mind with knowledge, but it is igniting the candle that enlightens the mind.

~ Debasish Mridha

Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life.

~ Debasish Mridha

The whole purpose of education is to create a window of the mind through which you can see the world. Look through that window with your own profound love, joy, harmony, and gratitude.

~ Debasish Mridha

Education ignites the lights in the darkness of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

~ Helen Keller

How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?How can a child, when fears annoy,But droop his tender wing,And forget his youthful spring?

~ William Blake

A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach.

~ Tanya R. Liverman

Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are our future. We teach them today, what will they do tomorrow?

~ Tanya R. Liverman

An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students.

~ Tanya R. Liverman

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

~ Bernard Branson

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

Joyfully we undertake our daily work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe in study. I believe that men learn much through study. As a matter of fact, it has been my observationthat they learn little concerning things as they are, as they were, or as they are to come without study. I alsobelieve, however, and know, that learning by study is greatly accelerated by faith.

~ Marion G. Romney

The knowledge of God is a sacred pursuit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The most sensitive period of their developmental age, when the kids are supposed to be taught to question everything and nourish their reasoning skills, they are taught that God created the world in seven days – that the human race did not evolve from apes through millions of years, rather it came from the amorous congress between two God-made humans, named Adam and Eve. And if you ask why? The answers of the uneducated primordial teachers would be that the scriptures say so. And now if you ask, can’t the scriptures be wrong – do I have to take these stories literally? They would lash out with rage and shout at you – how dare you question the scriptures! Every single word in it is true. There is no greater truth than the truth of these sacred texts.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.

~ Flannery O'connor

Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.

~ Brandi L. Bates

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

~ Sharon M. Draper

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

~ Roy Peter Clark

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

~ Jack London

I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up. Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out.

~ Megan Mccafferty

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

~ John Wooden

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

~ Scott Hayden

Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.

~ Allan Lokos

The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.

~ Donna Quesada

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

~ Richard Halliburton

You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure.

~ Allan Lokos

Cognitive Intelligence defines a person's personality trait who utilizes critical thinking based on empirical evidence, logics and thorough understanding of the information during an intellectual argument or an educational setting where they acquire brand new concepts.

~ Saaif Alam