“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”
– Solomon Ortiz
Education liberates us and gives the knowledge of the world around us. Right education inculcates the right attitude towards life. Some believe that education is merely about collecting information about the world, but it does not support much in acquiring knowledge. Thus, the right education system must focus more on making students capable of how to think and learn things on their own. Education goes much beyond our textbooks. It helps students learn discipline in life which helps them in future intellectual challenges. The view about education have changed a lot since the inception of formal education. Here, we have tried to bring in the top educational quotes from various thinkers and teachers from different eras. These educational quotes for students, teachers and parents will give you a fair insight on how people perceived education at different times. These quotes are also an excellent source of inspiration for teachers and students. Hope you like our selection of quotes and they bring a positive impact in your life.
Quotes on Education
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
– Malcolm X
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
– Aristotle
“If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.”
– Bill Gates
“By seeking and blundering, we learn.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress in every society in every family.”
– Kofi Annan
“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
– Peter Brougham
“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.”
– Helen Keller
“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.”
– Nelson Mandela
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
– B. B King
“The expert in anything was once a beginner.”
– Anonymous
“Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.”
– Brian Tracy
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Madela
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
– Carl Rogers
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
– Henry B Adams
“To teach is to learn twice.”
– Joseph Joubert
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.”
– Claus Moser
“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
“I’ve learned that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.”
– Andy Rooney
“What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.”
– Joseph Addison
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
– C.S. Lewis
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
– Buckminster Fuller
“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
– George Santayana
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
– St. Augustine
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
– Walter Cronkite
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
– Brigham Young
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
– Mark Twain
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
– C.S. Lewis
