Education Quotes
"Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."
— John Dewey
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
— Benjamin Franklin
"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations."
— Patricia Neal
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves."
— Saint Francis de Sales
"Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars."
— John F. Kennedy
"The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows."
— Laurence Lee
"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."
— Gloria Steinem
"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."
— Rabbinical Saying
"Only the educated are free."
— Epictetus
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
— Nelson Mandela
"The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure."
— Joseph Joubert
"Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery."
— Horace Mann
"If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them."
— Mohandas K. Gandhi
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
— John Powell
"Skill to do comes of doing."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
— Maria Montessori
"I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform."
— John Dewey
"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."
— Mortimer Adler
"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing."
— Maria Mitchell
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. "
— Anatole France
"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."
— Marian Wright Edelman
"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
— Angela Schwindt
"Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."
— Roger Lewin
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
— Henry B. Adams
"To teach is to learn twice."
— Joseph Joubert
"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
— Ben Sweetland
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
— John Dewey
"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."
— B. B. King
"The [person] who can make hard things easy is the educator."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
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— William Butler Yeates