250 Educational Quotes! Education Sayings & Quotes on Education

Educational Quotes for Teachers and Students

  • “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” —Claus Moser
  • “The Hunter who chases two rabbits will catch neither.” —Unknown
  • “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” —Ernest Dimnet
  • “We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them.” —Jean Jacques Rosseau
  • “Never be afraid to try something new. Remember amateurs built the ark, but professionals built the Titanic.” —Unknown
  • “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” —Helen Keller
  • “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” —Abraham Maslow
  • “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “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.” —Dr. David M. Burns
  • “You haven’t failed, until you stop trying.” —Unknown
  • “Learning never exhausts the mind. — Leonardo Da Vinci
  • “Success comes in cans, failure in can’ts.” — Unknown
  • “Worry is a misuse of the imagination.” —Mary Crowley
  • “Every artist was at first an amateur.” —Ralph W. Emerson
  • “A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out.” —Anon
  • “If what you’re doing isn’t working, try something else!.” —NLP adage
  • “All things good to know are difficult to learn. —Greek Proverb
  • “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t…you’re right!” —Henry Ford
  • “I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. —Annie Dillard
  • “It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.” —Paul Cezanne
  • “People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done.” —Gilbert Highet
  • “Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. —George Iles
  • “Learning without thought is a labor lost, thought without learning is perilous. — Confucius
  • “The only dreams impossible to reach are the ones you never pursue.” —Michael Deckman
  • “The only real failure in life is one not learned from. —Anthony J. D’Angelo
  • “If you know what you want, you are more likely to get it.” —NLP adage
  • “Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.” —Theodore Roszak
  • “The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.” —Pierre de Coubertin
  • “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” —Aristotle
  • “There two types of people; the can do and can’t. Which are you?.” —George R. Cabrera
  • “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited. —Plutarch
  • “Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. — Euripides
  • “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” —NLP adage
  • “You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. —H.G. Wells
  • “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” —Henry Ford
  • “Did you know that the Chinese symbol for ‘crisis’ includes a symbol which means ‘opportunity’?” —Jane Revell & Susan Norman
  • “Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence. —Abigail Adams
  • “I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. —Walt Disney
  • “There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • “Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” —Napoleon Hill
  • “One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.” —Sophocles
  • “Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.” —Elinor Smith
  • “All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence. —Denis Waitley
  • “Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. —Thomas Huxley
  • “Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!” —Garth Brooks
  • “No matter how he may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. —Frances Willard
  • “Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. —Henry Ford
  • “It’s ok to try things out, to ask questions, to feel unsure, to let your mind wander, to daydream, to ask for help, to experiment, to take time out, not to know, to practice, to ask for help again – and again, to make mistakes, to check your understanding.” —Jane Revell & Susan Norman

Famous Quotes about Education

  • “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “Change is the end result of all true learning.” —Leo Buscaglia
  • “The learning process continues until the day you die.” —Kirk Douglas
  • “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” —Aristotle
  • “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” —Confucius
  • “Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.” —Aristotle
  • “One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.” —Malala Yousafzai
  • “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ―W.B. Yeats
  • “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” —Malcolm X
  • “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” —Nelson Mandela
  • “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a cleverer devil.” ―C.S. Lewis
  • “By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body mind and spirit.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man. Divinity is the manifestation of the religion already in man.” —Swami Vivekananda
  • “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” —Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational Educational Quotes

  • “Your library is your paradise.” —Desiderius Erasmus
  • “To teach is to learn twice.” —Joseph Joubert
  • “Nine tenths of education is encouragement.” —Anatole France
  • “Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” —Mark Twain
  • “For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.” —Plato
  • “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” —Andy McIntyre
  • “Education is all a matter of building bridges.” —Ralph Ellison
  • “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” —Will Durant
  • “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” —Victor Hugo
  • “The mere imparting of information is not education.” —Carter G. Woodson
  • “Change is the end result of all true learning.” —Leo Buscaglia
  • “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” —Herbert Spencer
  • “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” —John Dewey
  • “You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.” —Malcolm X
  • “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” —George Santayana
  • “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” —Helen Keller
  • “The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.” —George Eastman
  • “Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.” —Leonardo da Vinci
  • “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” —Malcolm Forbes
  • “When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.” —Peter Drucker
  • “It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.” —Harvey S. Firestone
  • “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” —Jim Rohn
  • “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” —Epictetus
  • “A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” —Theodore Roosevelt
  • “Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.” —John Locke
  • “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” —Henry B. Adams
  • “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” —B. F. Skinner
  • “All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.” —Malala Yousafzai
  • “Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.” —W. E. B. Du Bois
  • “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” —Albert Schweitzer
  • “What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.” —Joseph Addison
  • “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” —Conrad Hall
  • “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” —Buckminster Fuller
  • “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” —Anthony J. D’Angelo
  • “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” —John F. Kennedy
  • “A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
  • “What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” —Henry David Thoreau
  • “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” —Chinese proverb
  • “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a cleverer devil.” —C. S. Lewis
  • “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” —Francis Bacon
  • “I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.” —Andy Rooney
  • “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” —Gloria Steinem
  • “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” —Aristotle
  • “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn… and change.” —Carl Rogers
  • “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” —James Baldwin
  • “I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” —Steve Irwin
  • “People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.” —Bill Vaughan
  • “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” —Solomon Ortiz
  • “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” —Robert G. Ingersoll
  • “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” —Marian Wright Edelman
  • “The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.” —Leo Buscaglia
  • “Men and women must be educated, to a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.” —Mary Wollstonecraft
  • “The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class because they do not realize how little they know.” —William R. Inge
  • “Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age.” —Erich Fromm
  • “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” —Goethe
  • “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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 Franklin
  • “Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity.” —Cesar Chavez
  • “No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.” —Bobby Scott
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.” —Jean Piaget
  • “Do not train children to learning 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
  • “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 ability to recognize opportunities and move in new – and sometimes unexpected – directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.” —Drew Gilpin Faust
  • “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
  • “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
  • “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” —Calvin Coolidge
  • “One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I’ve spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I’ve always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.” —Condoleezza Rice

Education Quotes by Gandhi

  • “The future depends on what we do in the present.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “There are two days in the year that we cannot do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Literacy in itself is no education. Literacy is not the end of education or even the beginning. By education, I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the child and man-body, mind and spirit.” —Mahatma Gandhi

Albert Einstein Quotes about Education

  • “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” —Albert Einstein
  • “Education is not learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” —Albert Einstein
  • “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” —Albert Einstein
  • “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” —Albert Einstein
  • “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” —Albert Einstein

Education Quotes by APJ Abdul Kalam

  • “Some of the brighttest minds in the country can be found on the last benches of the classroom.” —Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
  • “Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
  • “Your best teacher is your last mistake.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion..” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “If you want to success try to learn from failure story.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Without your involvement you can’t succeed. With your involvement you can’t fail.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Black color” is sentimental bad but every black board makes the student life better.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Learning gives creativity, creativity leads to thinking, thinking provides knowledge, and knowledge makes you great.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “One of the important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimensions.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Some of the brightest minds in the country can be found on last benches of the class room.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “All of us do not have equal talent. But all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise…Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Educationists should build capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message, Read failure stories; you will get some ideas to get success.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Creativity is the key to success in the future and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “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

Education Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

  • “Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.” —Swami Vivekananda
  • “Educate and raise the masses, and thus alone a nation is possible.” —Swami Vivekananda
  • “Education has yet to be in the world, and civilisation – civilisation has begun nowhere yet.” —Swami Vivekananda
  • “If education is identical with information, the libraries are the greatest sages in the world, and encyclopedias are the Rishis.” —Swami Vivekananda
  • “If the mountain does not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. If the poor cannot come to education, education must reach them at the plough, in the factory, everywhere.” —Swami Vivekananda
  • Educate and raise the masses, and thus alone a nation is possible.
  • “The only way to bring about the levelling of caste is to appropriate the culture, the education which is the strength of the higher castes.” —Swami Vivekananda
  • “We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet.” —Swami Vivekananda
  • “I look upon religion as the innermost core of education.” —Swami Vivekananda
  • “Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind is the ideal education.” —Swami Vivekananda
  • “The education that you are getting now has some good points, but it has a tremendous disadvantage which is so great that the good things are all weighed down.” —Swami Vivekananda

Educational Quotes for Students and Kids

  • “Strive for Progress, Not perfection.” —Unknown
  • “The highest result of education is tolerance.” —Hellen Keller
  • “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” —Confucius.
  • “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” —Henry Ford
  • “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” —Helen Keller
  • “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” —Dorothy Parker
  • “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” —Sydney J. Harris
  • “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” —John Wooden
  • “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” —George Washington Carver
  • “Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.” —Benjamin Disraeli
  • “Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.” —Jim Rohn
  • “A person who won’t read has no advantage over a person who can’t read.” —Mark Twain
  • “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” —B. B. King
  • “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” —G.K. Chesterton
  • “The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” —Confucius
  • “Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.” —Maria Montessori
  • “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” —Robert Frost
  • “A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.” —Charles B. Rangel
  • “Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.” —Ron Lewis
  • “Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.” —Ed Markey
  • “The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.” —Lindsay Kolowich
  • “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” —Chanakya
  • “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” —George Lorimer
  • “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world.” —Shai Reshef
  • “Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.” —William Glasser
  • “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potentials.” —John Maxwell
  • “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” —Dr. Seuss
  • “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” —Rabindranath Tagore
  • “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” —Seuss
  • “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” —Thomas A. Edison
  • “Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.” —Sir Anthony Seldon
  • “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
  • “With education you all have everything you need to rise above all of the noise and fulfill every last one of your dreams.” —Michelle Obama
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.” —Brad Henry
  • “The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” —Jean Piaget
  • “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti

Education Importance Quotes

  • “Education is the vaccine of violence.”—Edward James Olmos
  • “Learning is not compulsory… Neither is survival”—W. Edwards Demin
  • “A child without education is like a bird without wings.”—Tibetan Proverb
  • “Education is one thing no one can take away from you.”—Elin Nordegren
  • “The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”—Sydney J. Harris
  • “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”—Martin Luther King Jr.
  • “Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.”—George Washington Carver
  • “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.”—William S. Burroughs
  • “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”―Walter Cronkite
  • “Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”—Peter Brougham
  • “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”—Kofi Annan
  • “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”—Mortimer Adler
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “The ability to read, write, and analyze; the confidence to stand up and demand justice and equality; the qualifications and connections to get your foot in the door and take your seat at the table—all of that starts with education.”—Michelle Obama

Quotes and Sayings on Education

  • “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” —Allan Bloom
  • “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” —Edward Everett
  • “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” —Daniel J. Boorstin
  • “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” —Socrates
  • “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” —Plato
  • “Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.” —John Maynard Keynes
  • “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” —Malcolm Forbes
  • “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” —Malcolm Forbes
  • “Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.” —Martin H. Fischer
  • “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” —G.K. Chesterton
  • “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” —Robert Maynard Hutchins
  • “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” —Malcolm X
  • “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” —Oscar Wilde