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50 of the Best Quotes About Education

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Being an educator is not always the easiest job, but knowing you have made an impact on students’ lives can be so rewarding. Through all of the good times and bad, you continue to persevere and provide education to students of all backgrounds and abilities. We collected 50 of the best quotes about education to celebrate the best parts of teaching, learning, and the impact they have on the world.

Our Favorite Quotes About Education

“education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.” — malcolm x.

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” — Elin Nordegren

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm Forbes

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” — Abigail Adams

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

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

“The 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.

“A person who won’t read has no advantage over a person who can’t read.” — Mark Twain

“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” — Unknown

“Education is the key to unlock a golden door of freedom.” — George Washington Carver

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” — John F. Kennedy

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” — George Santayana

“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle

“Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life.” — W.E.B Du Bois

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” — Horace Mann

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” — Steve Irwin

“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” — Sidney Hook

“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” — William Bennett

“Education is the key which will unlock the door of opportunity for you.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

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

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” — Bill Nye

“The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Helen Keller

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

“To teach is to learn twice.” — Joseph Joubert

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

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” — Confucius

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” — Mark Van Doren

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

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” — Henry Ford

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Brooks Adams

“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buehner

“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” — Eliphas Levi

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai

“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.” — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” — Isaac Asimov

“Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.” — Ezra Pound

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” — Marian Wright Edelman

“It is only the ignorant who despise education.” — Publilius Syrus

“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” — William Morris

“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.” — Nancy Astor

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.” — Norman Cousins

“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.” — John Ruskin

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.” — Horace Mann

“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.” — Frederick William Robertson

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.” — Edward Everett

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100 Education Quotes That Will Inspire You To Keep Growing

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .

Education is vital.

You without education:

• More likely to become poor
• More likely to have diseases
• More likely to commit crimes

You with education:

• More likely to be happy
• More likely to make more money
• More likely to live longer

So, what’s the key to a better future?

Inspired by this, I have compiled 100 of the best education quotes I could find.

To inspire you and make you realize the value of proper education.

You’ll discover quotes by Einstein, Budha, Lao Tzu, and more.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. Bruce Lee

A dull mind gets bored easily. A curious mind expands forever. Maxime Lagacé

Play is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein ( This source says it’s probably not from Einstein)

A generation of auto-didacts, educated by the Internet and leveraged by technology, will eventually starve the industrial-education system. Naval Ravikant

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller

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

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

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. Bob Talber

Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson

A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero

The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice. James Clear

The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller

Only the autodidacts are free. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams

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The Best Education Quotes

The more you make it easy for your kids, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning. Maxime Lagacé

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. United Negro College Fund

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. Chinese proverb

The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt

Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge . Naval Ravikant

Podcasts are free. Twitter is free. Wikipedia is free. YouTube is free. We are living in a golden age of self-education. Brian Feroldi ( Source )

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. Naval Ravikant

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. Socrates

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming

Education begins the gentleman, but reading , good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke

Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. Jim Rohn

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. Bill Nye (upworthy.com)

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The learned man knows that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo

I am still learning. Michelangelo

Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Albert Einstein

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated. Oscar Wilde

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. James Dewar

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Augustine of Hippo

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

My education was interrupted only by my schooling. Winston Churchill

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes

As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Short Education Quotes

Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France

Responsibility educates. Wendell Phillips

A sign of good education: students don’t feel entitled. Maxime Lagacé

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Andy McIntyre

The world exists for the education of each man. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even a fool learns something once it hits him. Homer

Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus

Success is a poor teacher. Robert Kiyosaki

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes

There is no education like adversity. Benjamin Disraeli

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese proverb

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou

Inspirational Education Quotes

If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. Nora Roberts

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino

When anything can be learned online, the barrier to education is simply motivation, curiosity, and persistence. Anthony Pompliano ( Source )

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness . It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant (Naval referred to the Internet and social medias like Twitter and LinkedIn)

Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it. Walter Isaacson

Every person with a smartphone and a pair of headphones has access to the kind of education that was once reserved for the sons of aristocracy. The Stoic Emperor

Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be. Rita Pierson

They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. Aristotle

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual. Jean Piaget

Funny And Surprising Education Sayings

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day. Jay Mohr

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones

Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for. Jerry Seinfeld

Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime. Red Skelton

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn’t stop until you get to school. Milton Berle 😂

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

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. Mark Twain

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. Robin Williams

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education Proverbs For Value-Packed Wisdom

When the student is ready, the master appears. Buddhist proverb

If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly. Buddhist proverb

Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen proverb

A single conversation with a wise man is better than 10 years of study. Chinese proverb

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese proverb

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. Chinese proverb

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Chinese proverb

Wise men may not be learned; learned men may not be wise. Chinese proverb

A stumble may prevent a fall. English proverb

Despise school and remain a fool. German proverb

All things good to know are difficult to learn. Greek proverb

An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught. Japanese proverb

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. Japanese proverb

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. Latin proverb

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin H. Fischer

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. Eartha Kitt

Key Takeaways

• Want a great education? Never get bored asking questions.
• Want a great way to learn? Play! Don’t be so serious.
• Want to go far in life? Be an autodidact. You can learn anything on the Internet.
• Remember: answers are good, but questions are better.
• To know is good. To know what’s worth knowing is better.

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35 Inspiring Quotes about Education

Sometimes it can be hard to remember why education and learning is important. I have vivid memories from college where I wanted to drop out and how I was so done with school. When that happened, I thought about my why, my purpose. Below are 35 spectacular quotes about education and learning to remind yourself how important it is to learn! These are great for a motivational push when you want to give up on that paper or for a custom teacher’s gift or card. 

As a teacher, my favorite quotes about education from this list are numbers 9, 17, 21, and 30. I’ve seen lots of teacher shirts and things that have those quotes on them!

• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
• “The 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.
• “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
• “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” – Plato
• “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver
• “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
• “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
• “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.” – Christine Gregoire
• “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
• “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
• “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” – Aristotle
• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Education is the foundation of all progress.” – John F. Kennedy
• “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom
• “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
• “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan

• “Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.” – Brad Henry
• “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer
• “Education is the foundation of opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
• “Education is the vaccine for violence.” – Edward James Olmos
• “The educated man is the man who can stimulate his own mind.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
• “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein
• “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
• “Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.” – Nora Ephron
• “Education is the foundation of a strong and informed society.” – Elizabeth Warren
• “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb
• “Education is the engine of personal development.” – Peter Thiel
• “The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.” – Aristotle
• “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes Laertius
• “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
• “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William S. Burroughs
• “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” – Solomon Ortiz

Which quotes about education are your favorite from the list? Or do you have another that inspires you? Share in the comments below!

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11 comments.

Excellent quotes! My favorite one is “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein

I love all the quotes in this post. My favorites are 5 and 15. So much truth in them!

I love all these quotes about education. My favorite is “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” Education is life, I think it surmarises everything.

Love all of these, number 13 is my personal favorite I would say. Thanks so much for sharing so much inspiration.

This is an awesome collection of quotes. This is by far my favorite: “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

Education is the magic bullet that can take your life where you want it to go. It is the key to rising from poverty and bad circumstances.

Thank you for sharing these amazing quotes. Number 24 “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein – is really what education should be about.

I’m a former teacher. Love these quotes!

“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know,” by Aristotle is one of my favorite quotes! A mind that always wants to learn is the best mind.

such a great list of quotes

Loved this! Great list of quotes! 🙂

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Education Quotes for Teachers and Students

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Whether you’re a teacher or a student, a new school year is an exciting time. These education quotes will get you ready to enjoy teaching and learning anytime.

School pushes us out of our comfort zone, teaches us to dream big, and encourages us to achieve our potential.

In celebration of all the amazing things that education, we’ve put together a list of the best quotes about school, learning, and teaching.

So whether you’re a parent, student, or teacher – we’ve got you covered as you get ready for another year of school.

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Top 10 Education Quotes

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates

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

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Oprah Winfrey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration . Bill Frist

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Herbert Spencer

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett 

Quotes about Education

Whether you’re at the beginning of a new year or semester of learning, or aren’t quite sure where your knowledge will take you next – look no further than these inspiring education quotes.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Ernest Dimnet

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes

Only the educated are free. Epictetus

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. Plato

It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling. Murray N. Rothbard

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin Fisher

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. Shakuntala Devi

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking

Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. George Carlin

Even the genius asks questions. Tupac Shakur

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers

Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do. Bruce Lee

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

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein

Development is a series of rebirths. Maria Montessori

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. Buddha

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

Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. Mark Twain

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. W.B. Yeats

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. Sir Claus Moser

Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln

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

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

They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. Muriel Spark

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George Washington Carver

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller

Learning Quotes

Live as if you will die tomorrow. Learn as if you will live forever. Mahatma Gandhi

The learning process continues until the day you die. Kirk Douglas

The doer alone learneth. Friedrich Nietzsche

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first. Ray Congdon

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. Wendell Berry

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. Voltaire

Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go! Dr. Seuss

Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work. William Crawford

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb

The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. B.B. King

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

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid. G.K. Chesterton

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Henry Ford

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. Thomas Szasz

Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. Harry S. Truman

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. Claude Bernard

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. Vernon Howard

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world. Eric Hoffer

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. Claude Bernard

Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman

I’m still learning. Michelangelo

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. Michel Legrand

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle

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School Quotes

A new desk, a handful of freshly sharpened pencils, the first page of a new workbook… there are no days quite like school days!

From Kindergarten to college, celebrate all stages of education and their role in shaping our futures with these great school quotes.

In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. Tom Bodett

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school. Terrance Deal

We don’t stop going to school when we graduate . Carol Burnett

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work. Richard Livingstone

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. Harold Howe

School made us ‘literate’ but did not teach us to read for pleasure. Ambeth Ocampo

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E.M. Forster

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. Robert T. Kiosaki

The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. Dr. Seuss

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. Chuck Grassley

Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials is like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing. Madeline Hunter

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. Agnes Repplierg

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. Og Mandino

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

School is a place that provides education, and education is the key to life. Unknown

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

I’m not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. Emma Watson

School prepares you for the real world… which also bites. Jim Benton

There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. Ray Bradbury

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book for everything. Robert Frost

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. George Evans

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.Margaret Atwood

Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. Roy T. Bennett

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. Stanley Kubrick

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year. Henry Ford

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else. James E. Faust

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun. Josephine Baker

Education begins at home . You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him. Geoffrey Holder

Teaching Quotes

Teachers have the amazing power of being able to inspire young minds.

Celebrate those who help children and young people achieve their potential with these quotes about teachers and teaching.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage . A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential. John C. Maxwell

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world. Malala Yousafzai

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson. John Henrik Clarke

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Cicero

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

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

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. Ruth Beechick

Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. John Holt

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. Frank Herbert

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor

Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Francis Keppel

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge. Brad Sherman

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. Joseph Campbell

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. Solomon Ortiz

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers

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Famous Education and Teaching Quotes

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Education is the bedrock of social and economic development. Throughout history, philosophers like Aristotle and Plato recognized the importance of education. Use these famous education quotes to inspire others to follow the path of knowledge. It is only through education that we can hope to eradicate social evils.

Quotes About Formal Education

Some of the greatest thinkers believe that access to formal education is the key to equality and social justice. Many of those thinkers, including Horace Mann and Thomas Jefferson, founded schools and universities to provide the type of education they espoused. Here are some of their thoughts on formal education.

Horace Mann: "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

Aristotle: "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Thomas Jefferson: "Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both."

Benjamin Franklin: "Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

Helen Keller:  "The highest result of education is tolerance."

Victor Hugo: "He who opens a school door closes a prison."

Malala Yousafzai: “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” 

Nelson Mandela: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

Quotes About Informal Learning

Many great thinkers believe that formal learning in a school setting is less valuable than experience and informal learning. Some even believe that formal education can slow down or warp the process of discovery and learning. Here are some of their thoughts.

Jim Rohn:  "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

Albert Einstein: " Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

Oscar Wilde:  "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Galileo Galilei:  "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” 

Quotes About Teachers and Teaching

Teaching has always been considered one of the most important professions. Over time, the actual day-to-day experience of teaching and learning has changed. The basic purpose and outcome, however, remain the same.

C. S. Lewis: "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts."

Henry Brooks Adams: "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Ralph Waldo Emerson:  "The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

William Arthur Ward: “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” 

Nikos Kazantzakis: “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 their own.” 

Aristotle: “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” 

Henry Brooks Adams: "Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops."

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150 Inspiring Quotes About Education And Learning

Explore, enjoy and get motivated from the best education and learning quotes from the famous and brilliant people.

Best Quotes on Education

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

 “Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” -John W. Gardner

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

“A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity” – Dorothy Parker

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo

“If You are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people” – Chinese Proverb

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer” – Albert Einstein

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” -Mark Twain

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself” – Chinese Proverb

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” – Benjamin Franklin

 “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” -Buckminster Fuller

“The highest result of education is tolerance” – Hellen Keller

Education quotes to inspire and teach

 “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you” – B. B. King

 “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” -Jim Rohn

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another” – G.K. Chesterton

 “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” -Malcolm X

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows” – Sydney J. Harris

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 “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” -Zig Ziglar

“The 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

  “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” -Andy McIntyre

“When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world” – Shai Reshef

 “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.” -Carl Rogers

“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” -David M. Burns

Education quotes about reading

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” -Wayne Dyer

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” -Lloyd Alexander

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” -John R. Wooden

“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backwards into safety.” – Abraham Maslow

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Ben Frankli n

“If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” -John Newton

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” -Jim Rohn

Education Quotes for Teachers

“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” -Clay P. Bedford

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” -Henry B Adams

“To teach is to learn twice.” -Joseph Joubert

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” -Alfred Mercier

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” -Erich Fromm

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” -James Baldwin

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” -Albert Schweitzer

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” -Roger Lewin

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” -Bill Beattie

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” -G.K. Chesterton

“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” -Lady Bird Johnson

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“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” -Chinese proverb

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.” -Anatole France

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” -Jim Rohn

“The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his “mistakes.” The more a child’s work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child’s work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.” -Franz Cizek

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” -Goethe

“Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.” -Claus Moser

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.“ -Steve Irwin

“Do not train children to learn by force and 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

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” -Maya Angelou

“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it.” -Arnold Glasow

Quotes on the Power of Education

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” -Epictetus

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” -Abraham Maslow

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“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

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” -Gloria Steinem

“If a man is a fool, you don’t train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.” -Desmond Bagley

“The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class because they do not realize how little they know.” -William R. Inge

“People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.” -Bill Vaughan

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“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” -Henry David Thoreau

“Change is the end result of all true learning.” -Leo Buscaglia

“Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.” -Edward De Bono

“I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.” -Andy Rooney

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” -Sydney J. Harris

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

“What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.” -Joseph Addison

wise education quotes

“Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” -Peter Brougham

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” -Albert Einstein

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” -William Haley

“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” -Helen Keller

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” -Robert G. Ingersoll

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” -Buckminster Fuller

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.“ -Jim Rohn

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” -Michel Legrand

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. –   Benjamin Franklin

Change is the end result of all true learning. – Leo Buscaglia

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X

Education is the need of tomorrow Quotes

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle

education quotes about its fruits

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. – Albert Einstein

The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

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

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“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” -John Keats

“The learning process continues until the day you die.” – Kirk Douglas

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ― W.B. Yeats

“Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” -Abraham Lincoln

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. – John Dewey

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. – Kofi Annan

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. – Mark Twain

Quotes About Education and information

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – Edward Everett

They know enough who know how to learn. – Henry Adams

“It is, in fact, a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.” -T.S. Eliot

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” -Alexandra K. Trenfor

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. – Chinese proverb

education quotes for teachers

Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. – Anatole France

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. – Claude Bernard

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

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams

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

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. – Agnes Repplierg

quotes about education and mindset

They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. – Malala Yousafzai

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ― Thomas Jefferson

Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. – Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.- John Holt

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. –  Og Mandino

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Quotes about education and its importance.

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

“I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.”– Ann Brashares

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

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” ― Muriel Spark

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” ― Victor Hugo

Education is the ability to meet life’s situations .- Dr. John G. Hibben

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. – John Hersey

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

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” -Charles F. Kettering

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

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.“ – Marian Wright Edelman

Education quotes to help you succeed

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.” – Thomas Szasz

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. – Conrad Hall

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” -Will Durant

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. – Sydney J. Harris

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. – Ernest Dimnet

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” -Chinese proverb

“Every artist was at first an amateur.” – Ralph W. Emerson

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” ― Mark Twain

All men by nature desire to know. – Aristotle

“Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.“ – W. E. B. Du Bois

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” – Alexander the Great

“Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.” ― Anton Chekhov

“Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.” – George Weah

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

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“A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ” ― Jane Austen (Read more Jane Austen quotes.)

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ― Jim Rohn

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” ― Michel Legrand

“By seeking and blundering we learn.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. “Light! Give me light!” was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.” -Helen Keller

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. ” ― Pete Seeger

“Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.” ― Claire Fagin

Inspirational education quotes

“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.” ― John Taylor Gatto

“Only the educated are free.” ― Epictetus

“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.” -Peter Drucker

“A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.” ― Anne Bishop

“Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.” ― Frank Herbert

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” -Tom Bodett

“I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.” ― Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

“I don’t want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.” ― Malala Yousafzai

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” -Chinese proverb

“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.” ― Mark Twain

“It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.” ― Cormac McCarthy

“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth” ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” ― Malala Yousafzai

Education quotes to inspire you to keep learning

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” –Martin Fisher

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”― Aristotle

“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” –Claude Bernard

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” — Chinese Proverb

“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” – George Evans

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” — Carl Rogers

“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” – Mark Twain

“You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius

“We learn from failure, not from success!” ― Bram Stoker

“The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” – Jack Nicholson

Quotes about education to inspire and motivate

“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” — Thomas Carruthers

82. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” –Socrates

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius

“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” – Voltaire

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” ― Douglas Adams

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” ― Isaac Asimov

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”― Albert Einstein

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Education quotes to elevate your perspective

“Education is the art of making man ethical.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver

“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

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

“Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.” – Eric Fromm

“The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.” – George Eastman

“Education is the transmission of civilization.” – Will Durant

Inspirational quotes about education

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” – Jim Rohn

“Education is the mother of leadership.” – Wendell Willkie

“Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. – Shakuntala Devi

“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.” – Plato

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer

. “Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.” – Thomas Moore

“Education should light a fire within us to improve us and help our world.” – Sarah Josepf

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Your library is your paradise.” – Desiderius Erasmus

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” — Henry Ford

“Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.” – Ernest Dimnet

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” ― B.B. King

Education quotes to elevate your mind

“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond

“One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.” – Sophocles

“All things good to know are difficult to learn.” – Greek proverb

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” – Aristotle

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius

“By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Education is learning what you didn’t know you didn’t know.” – George Boas

“Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.” – John Adams

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

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William Burroughs

Education quotes to inspire and motivate you

“The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” – Malala Yousafzai

“The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” – Confucius

“Education is everything- education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.” – Ciara

“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes of Sinope

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” – Elin Nordegren

“The 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.

“When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous.” – Michelle Obama

“Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.” – Thomas Lodge

“We want the education by which character is formed, the strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet.” – Swami Vivekananda

“Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.” – Stephen Mitchell

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“A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Andy McIntyre

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”- Epictetus

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

“The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.” – William R. Inge

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” – Lloyd Alexander

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” – Henry David Thoreau

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier

1“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” – William Haley

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Wise words for students of any age and lifelong learners too

Do you have a favorite educator? One of the best teacher gifts you can give is letting them know how much they've inspired your journey, so share one of these quotes with them in a thank-you note or message. If you don't find the perfect words here, we have a great list of best teacher quotes too.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.”

Albert Einstein

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

Alvin Toffler

“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.”

Andy McIntyre

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

Maya Angelou

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”

Carl Rogers

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

Dorothy Parker

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

Benjamin Franklin

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

Lee Iacocca

“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

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

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”

Chinese Proverb

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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14 Quotes from Einstein on Education (with Sources)

On Schooling:   ‘’It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. ’’  [quoted in The New York Times , March 13 1949, p. 34].

On Imagination: ‘ ’Knowledge is limited.  Imagination encircles the world. ’’ [quoted in “What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck” Saturday Evening Post , October 26th, 1929, p. 11].

On Love of Learning : ’I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious .’’ [quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe , p. 548].

On Creativity: ‘’It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.’ ‘ [quoted in Alice Calaprice, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein , p. 100].

On Play : “The desire to arrive finally at logically connected concepts is the emotional basis of a vague play with basic ideas. . . . . this combinatory or associative play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.”   [quoted in Jacques Hadamard, An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field , Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1945, p. 142].

On Curiosity : “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity.’’  [quoted in, ‘’Death of a Genius–Old Man’s Advice to Youth: ‘Never Lose a Holy Curiosity,’’ Life Magazine 38, no. 18, (May 2, 1955): p. 64].

On Wonder: ”The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffled-out candle.”  [quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe , p. 387].

On Individuality:   ”The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. . .”   [quoted in Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions , Broadway Books, p. 64].

On Neurodiversity : His son, Albert Einstein Jr. wrote: ” [Einstein] was . . . considered backward by his teachers. He told me that his teachers reported to his father that he was mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams .” [quoted in Victor Goertzel and Mildred G. Goertzel, Cradles of Eminence, p. 248.

On Compassion:   ‘’ Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty .’’  [quoted in Walter Sullivan, ‘’The Einstein Papers: A Man of Many Parts,’’ The New York Times , March 29, 1972, p. 20].

On Care for Nature :  ” In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence .”  [quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein , p. 32].

On Tolerance :  ‘’ Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. ’’ [quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein , p. 297].

On Beauty:   ‘’ To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly; this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man .”  [quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe , p. 387].

On Education:   ‘’ The wit was not wrong who defined education in this way: ‘Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school .’’ [quoted in Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions , p. 63].

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Celebrating ecpi university’s 50 th anniversary.

There are many reasons to go to college. Just read ECPI University’s quarterly news magazine, eConnect , and you’ll meet countless people, each with their own unique story. Yet, they all have one thing in common: the belief that an education is the vehicle through which we can improve ourselves and open doors. 

Since 1966, ECPI University has been helping people fulfill their personal ambitions. In this, our 50 th anniversary year, we celebrate power of education and its ability to change lives and create lifelong learners.

While college has changed greatly through the ages, the principles of learning have not. With that thought in mind, we commemorate ECPI University’s 50 th anniversary with 50 quotes from some of the world’s greatest minds, each dedicated to the timeless belief that education and perpetual learning should always be humankind’s foremost pursuit.

1. "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn." – Alvin Toffler

2. "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education." – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. "Education in the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." – Nelson Mandela

4. "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." – John Dewey

5. "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin

6. "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." – Aristotle

7. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." – Aristotle

8. "It is better to learn late than never." – Publilius Syrus

9. "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." – Carl Rogers

10. "Education is the movement from darkness to light." – Allan Bloom

11. "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." – Sydney J. Harris

12. "Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know." – Daniel J. Boorstin

13. "Education’s purpose is to replace and empty mind with an open one." – Malcom Forbes

14. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." – Maimonides

15. "You are always a student, never a master. You have keep moving forward." – Conrad Hall

16. "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." – William Butler Yeats

17. "You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." – Clay P. Bedford

18. "Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand." – Chinese proverb

19. "Education cost money, but then so does ignorance." – Claus Moser

20. "What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul." – Joseph Addison

21. "Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?" – Erich Fromm

22. "The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." – B.B. King

23. "Education is hanging around until you've caught on." – Robert Lee Frost

24. "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." – Robert Frost

25. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Mahatma Gandhi

26. "You can never be overdressed or overeducated." – Oscar Wilde

27. "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts." – C.S. Lewis

28. "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." – Margaret Mead

29. "The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark." – Thomas Paine

30. "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." – Herbert Spencer

31. "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth." – John F. Kennedy

32. "He that loves reading has everything within his reach." – William Godwin

33. "Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow." – Anthony J. D'Angelo

34. "The only real failure in life is one not learned from." – Anthony J. D'Angelo

35. "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." – George Washington Carver

36. "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." – Abraham Lincoln

37. "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." – Albert Einstein

38. "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence." –  Abigail Adams

39. "The mere imparting of information is not education." – Carter G. Woodson

40. "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting." – Edmund Burke

41. "Good questions outrank easy answers." – Paul Samuelson

42. "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 know and what you don't." – Anatole France

43. "Change is the end result of all true learning." – Leo Buscaglia

44. "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." – Edward Everett

45. "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." – Gilbert K. Chesterton

46. "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." – Victor Hugo

47. "Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body." – Marcus Tullius Cicero

48. "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family." – Kofi Annan

49. "There is no greater education than one that is self-driven." – Neil deGrasse Tyson

50. "Education is freedom." – Paulo Freire

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Inspire lifelong learning with these 25 education quotes

In the pursuit of knowledge, inspiration acts as a guiding light, so what better way to fuel your educational journey than with memorable quotes from profound visionaries across history and culture?

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25 education quotes to inspire.

Education is a journey, and these quotes serve as signposts along the way, offering wisdom and motivation to keep you moving forward.

• "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
• "The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." - B.B. King
• "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
• "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
• "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss
• "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." - George Washington Carver
• "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch
• "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
• "Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." - Malcolm X
• "Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." - Chinese Proverb
• "The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm S. Forbes
• "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." - John Dewey
• "Education is the foundation upon which we build our future." - Christine Gregoire
• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." - Albert Einstein
• "Education is the movement from darkness to light." - Allan Bloom
• "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family." - Kofi Annan
• "Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life." - Shakuntala Devi
• "The more you learn, the more you earn." - Warren Buffett
• "Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace." - Confucius
• "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle
• "Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life." - Brad Henry
• "To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Theodore Roosevelt
• "The 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.
• "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world for the better." - Marian Wright Edelman
• "Education is the foundation of all we do in life. It shapes who we are and what we aspire to be." - Julie Payette

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Throughout your educational journey, it’s likely that you’ll look for sources of motivation. Since you’ll be tasked with a lot and will have your fair share of responsibilities, these quotes by famous educators and other notable people are a great place to turn to.

Educational quotes and quotes related to education may offer the boost of energy you need to keep powering through when you need it most.

Education-Related Quotes

Now, it’s time to get to inspirational quotes. Have a look:

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin

There’s no doubt that the cost of education is on the rise. The financial concerns of earning your education should never stop you from doing so because, as Benjamin Franklin once said, this investment in yourself will pay you back with interest over your entire lifetime. Additionally, you can earn your education in a cost-effective way. Check out the University of the People’s degree programs that are all tuition-free. 

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

While it’s safe to say that no one knows what will happen tomorrow, having an education under your belt will open the door to more opportunities. These job opportunities are also likely to pay more with more education, so what you do today in terms of education will surely prepare you for what’s yet to come.

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

The great thing about learning is that you never have to stop! There’s no limit as to the amount of knowledge you can obtain. So, rip a page from Gandhi’s book and keep on learning while you’re living.

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” —Elin Nordegren

If there’s one thing that’s certain in life is that everything is constantly changing. You may suffer losses when it comes to loved ones, finances, belongings, and the like. But, the thing that you can never lose is your education.

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” —Maimonides

Perhaps you’ve heard this important lesson from the philosopher Maimonides before. The main message here is that you can do something for someone and it will be of help at the time, but if you don’t teach them how to do it themselves, they will forever be dependent. That’s one of the most beautiful things about teaching and education– once you share knowledge or obtain knowledge, there is power and capability gained forever.

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.“ – Malcolm Forbes

No matter where you come from or how you see the world, one of the benefits of obtaining an education will be that it will open your mind to new perspectives. For example, at the University of the People, students from over 200 countries and territories attend our online institution. That means that peers get to communicate and learn about different cultures and places without even having to leave home.

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.“ – Albert Einstein

The late and great theoretical physicist Albert Einstein makes a strong statement here, which resembles the quote from Gandhi above. The opportunity to learn and the possibility to do so is something you can do at any point in your life. There’s no deadline to learning.

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows” – Sydney J. Harris

This poetic quote allows for a nice image to come to mind. The idea here is that instead of looking at the world as a reflection of yourself and your own perspective being bounced back, education clears up the space to see past oneself as if they were looking through a window.

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself” – Chinese Proverb

No matter how good and dedicated teachers are, students need to be willing to learn. This Chinese proverb sums it up well – students need to take the first step forward in gaining knowledge.

“A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.“ – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

As you learn, you undoubtedly grow. So, once you’ve been educated on a topic, you never lose what you gain. In turn, your mind, imagination and understanding will expand.

 “Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams

In today’s modern age with technological advances, the opportunity to learn is seemingly everywhere. While you can pick up pieces of knowledge by chance and through experience, you ingest the most when you are dedicated and aware of learning. Luckily, you have options to earn degrees in-person, online, or in a hybrid approach.

 “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond 

Similar to the above quote, you can learn anywhere and everywhere. But, you have to be aware to do so because otherwise, things will pass you by.

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Jeff Rich

While cost-effective ways to obtain education do exist, the cost of education can also be very expensive. As American lawyer and educator, Derek Bok pointed out in this quote, ignorance is certainly more expensive because it can lead to problems in life.

Closing Thoughts

These educational quotes represent a small sliver of the education-related quotes out there in the world. Hopefully, they’ve served to remind you of why education is so valuable and how it can prepare you for the best possible experiences in life. If you’re already on your educational journey, keep going!

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These dedicated educators are the unsung heroes, working tirelessly behind the scenes to impart knowledge and inspire the next generation of leaders, thinkers, and innovators.

Whether you're celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week or simply showing gratitude for educators throughout the year - let's take a moment to reflect on the crucial role teachers play in our communities and the lives of our children.

The influence of a great teacher extends far beyond the boundaries of the classroom. They provide the foundation for our children's intellectual growth and emotional well-being, often becoming mentors, guides, and trusted confidants.

Our educators face countless challenges every day, including limited resources, crowded classrooms, and a rapidly changing world. Yet, they remain steadfast in their commitment to create a brighter future for each and every student.

This collection of teacher appreciation quotes is a small token of gratitude for the incredible work teachers do every day.

As you read through these inspiring words, we hope you'll be reminded of the immense value of the educators in your life and feel motivated to express your thanks to them.

Additionally, we hope these quotes will serve as a source of inspiration for educators, reminding them of the powerful impact they have on their students' lives.

In this ever-evolving world, it's important to remember that teachers truly are the architects of our future – nurturing, guiding, and shaping the minds that will one day lead us forward.

The Best Teacher Appreciation Quotes

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"Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around."

- Helen Peters

"Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives."

- Andy Rooney

"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system."

- Sidney Hook

"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

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."

- Carl Jung

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."

- Marian Wright Edelman

"A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed."

- Justin Trudeau

"Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth."

- Helen Caldicott

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"They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."

- Nicholas Sparks

"Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known."

- Frank Herbert

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul."

- Joseph Addison

"The best thing about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest thing about being a teacher is that it matters every day."

- Todd Whitaker

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

"Teaching is more than imparting knowledge; it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts; it is acquiring understanding."

- William Arthur Ward

"This Teacher Appreciation Week and every week, I'm thankful for America's teachers. But they deserve more than thanks. Teachers go above and beyond their job for their students every day - they deserve higher wages and better working conditions." - Vice President Kamala Harris

"Wherever you find something extraordinary, you'll find the fingerprints of a great teacher."

- Arne Duncan

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"Some people change the world. And some people change the people who change the world, and that's you."

- Kij Johnson

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

- Henry Adams

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."

- Tom Brokaw

"The great teacher is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become different people." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace." - Confucius

Quotes of Gratitude for Teachers

"My English teacher, Mrs. Bodey, was instrumental in the educational journey that carried me through school and into my career. Until her class, I hadn't believed in my ability as a writer. She recognized my potential and showed me that I could write with creativity, with clarity, with passion."

- John Legend

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."

- Alexander the Great

"The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask."

- Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

"The human mind is an incredible thing. It can conceive of the magnificence of the heavens and the intricacies of the basic components of matter. Yet for each mind to achieve its full potential, it needs a spark. The spark of enquiry and wonder. Often that spark comes from a teacher… If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher. When each of us thinks about what we can do in life, chances are we can do it because of a teacher."

- Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"When she chose to smile on me, I always wanted to thank her. The action was so graceful and inclusively benign."

- Maya Angelou , I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Short Quotes

"Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me." - Fred Rogers

"I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession."

- John Wooden

"Invest in our teachers, and our children will succeed."

- Barack Obama

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

- Brad Henry

"Teaching is a creative profession."

- Sir Ken Robinson

"Show me a school where the teachers are happy, and I'll show you a school where the teachers are trusted."

- Dwayne Reed

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

- Mark Van Doren

"[Teachers'] devotion to our children embodies the best of America - ready to serve and eager to see others thrive." - President Joe Biden

"Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." - John C. Maxwell

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"Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care."

- Horace Mann

"Teachers play such an enormous role in forming, not just teaching them, but forming character in our kids. We really have to thank them for what they do. They are really the core that makes our society work." - Jeanine Pirro

"You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it."

- J.D. Salinger

"Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon."

- Ann Lieberman

"Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness."

- Jeannette Walls

"To me, there is nothing more exciting, fulfilling, and wonderful than watching a kid finally grasp a concept, then take the information and use it in the real world. Teachers make this happen. Teachers motivate. Teachers synthesize information to help students understand. Teachers listen, coach, and mentor. Teachers matter."

- George Lucas

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Dear Annie: Famous quotes celebrate beauty of motherhood

• Published: May. 12, 2024, 9:00 a.m.

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Dear Readers:

Wishing you all a Happy Mother’s Day. Below are some beautiful quotes to enjoy on Mother’s Day.

“We are born of love; love is our mother.” -- Rumi

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” -- Maya Angelou

“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.” -- E. M. Forster

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” -- George Washington

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” -- Abraham Lincoln

“I remember my mother’s prayers, and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” -- Abraham Lincoln

“Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.” -- Martha Stewart

“Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.” -- Sophocles

“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” -- Jodi Picoult

“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” -- Erich Fromm

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” -- Rudyard Kipling

“Men are what their mothers made them.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As is the mother, so is her daughter.” -- Ezekiel 16:4

“A mother takes 20 years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in 20 minutes.” -- Robert Frost

“A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.” -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.” -- Victor Hugo

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” -- George Eliot

“A mother understands what a child does not say.” -- Jewish proverb

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” -- Mahatma Gandhi

“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart -- a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.” -- Mark Twain

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” -- Sophia Loren

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” -- Oprah Winfrey

“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” -- Oprah Winfrey

What makes a mother is someone who is caring, nurturing and loving.

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Albert Einstein Quotes About Education

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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

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. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

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Mother's Day 2024: Quotes by Famous Authors and Poets to Celebrate Motherhood

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Whether it’s our mothers, grandmothers, or aunts, they deserve all the appreciation and recognition not only on Mother’s Day but every single day.

Mother’s Day is a joyous occasion dedicated to the incredible women who have nurtured and raised us. This year, the occasion falls on Sunday, May 12. The day is dedicated to showing our moms how much we appreciate their boundless love, unwavering support, and countless sacrifices. Whether it’s our mothers, grandmothers, or aunts, they deserve all the appreciation and recognition not only on Mother’s Day but every single day.

ALSO READ: Happy Mother’s Day 2024: Perfect Wishes, Quotes, Images & More to Make Mom Smile!

Here are some inspiring quotes from famous authors and poets to share with your mother this Mother’s Day.

Mother’s Day 2024: Inspirational Quotes

• “She was of the stuff of which great men’s mothers are made. She was indispensable to the high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.” – Thomas Hardy
• “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
• “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” – Maya Angelou
• Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever”- J.K. Rowling
• “I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.” – Maya Angelou
• “Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.” – Jojo Moyes
• “So loving to my mother, That he might not between the winds of heaven, Visit her face’ too roughly”- William Shakespeare
• “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – Rudyard Kipling
• “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” – Washington Irving.

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Oprah Winfrey apologizes for being 'major contributor' to shaming diet culture and the 'wagon of fat' moment

• Oprah Winfrey said she regrets her role in promoting unhealthy and unrealistic diets.
• The media mogul hosted a Weight Watchers live special which streamed on YouTube earlier this week.
• During the discussion, Winfrey pointed to her famous "wagon of fat" stunt from her 1988 TV show.

Oprah Winfrey has reflected on her role in perpetuating unsustainable weight-loss methods.

While hosting a Weight Watchers YouTube live special on Thursday (May 9), the 70-year-old media mogul host acknowledged that she had been a "major contributor" to modern diet culture and stated that she is "done with the shaming."

"I wanted to gather all of us together because I believe that we have reached a pivotal moment in the way we talk about and the way we think about our bodies," Winfrey told the in-person and virtual audience.

"I've been a steadfast participant in this diet culture. Through my platforms, through the magazine, through the talk show for 25 years, through online —I've been a major contributor to it.

"I cannot tell you how many weight loss shows and makeovers I have done," she continued, adding that the famous "wagon of fat" moment on her talk show was "one of my biggest regrets."

On an episode of her namesake talk show in 1988, Winfrey wheeled out a red wagon containing 67 pounds of animal fat to show her audience how much weight she had lost after going on a crash diet that saw her replace meals with shakes for four months.

The episode drew 62 million viewers , meaning one in four Americans sat down and watched it.

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"The very next day, I began to gain the weight back," Winfrey said of the stunt.

"That wagon of fat moment was set into motion after years and years of thinking that my struggle with my weight was my fault, and it has taken me even up until last week to process the shame I felt privately as my very public yo-yo diet moments became a national joke."

Now, Winfrey told the audience that she wants to support them in their shift toward self-acceptance and healthier mindsets.

"Whatever your path, let's stop the shaming," she said. "We've been told that unless we meet a certain standard of size, that we didn't deserve to be accepted or even to be loved."

Winfreys' comments come two months after she announced that she would be stepping down from her position at WW International , known as WeightWatchers, after almost a decade on its board of directors. Shares for the company plummeted 25% after the news broke.

At the time, she said in a statement that she would be donating her shares to the National Museum of African American History and Culture and would continue to "advise and collaborate with WeightWatchers and CEO Sima Sistani in elevating the conversation around recognizing obesity as a chronic condition, working to reduce stigma, and advocating for health equity."

Shortly after, the Oscar winner helmed the ABC televised special "Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution," which saw her discuss the growing popularity of weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, Mounjaro, and Wegovy.

Winfrey revealed last year that she uses weight-loss medications to maintain her weight, declining to say which specific drug she takes.

"The fact that there's a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for," Winfrey said.

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