Education Quotations
1. “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
2. You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. – Conrad Hall
3. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. – Sydney J. Harris
4. Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. – Ernest Dimnet
5. “Every artist was at first an amateur.” – Ralph W. Emerson
6. “Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” ― Mark Twain
7. All men by nature desire to know.- Aristotle
8. “Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.“ – W. E. B. Du Bois
9. “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” – Alexander the Great
10. “Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.” ― Anton Chekhov
11. “Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.” – George Weah
12. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya
13. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”― William Butler Yeats
14. “A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren
15. “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
16. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ― Jim Rohn
17. “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” ― Michel Legrand
18. “By seeking and blundering we learn.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
19. “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
20. “Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.”― Claire Fagin
21. “I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein
22. “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” – Mary McLeod Bethune
23. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
24. “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
25. “Education is too important to be left solely to educators.” – Francis Keppel
26. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” – Albert Einstein
27. “It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.” –Rene Descartes
28. “Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.” – William H. Gray III
29. “Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley
30. “You teach best what you most need to learn.” – Richard Bach
31. “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
32. “If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.” – Brad Sherman
33. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” –Confucius
34. “The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.” – Joseph Campbell
35. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
36. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C. S. Lewis
37. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin
38. “Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
39. “I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” – Steve Irwin
40. “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” – Eartha Kitt
