Education Quotes

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis