Education Quotes

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

- Nelson Mandela

"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching kids what counts is best."

- Bob Talbert

"It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom."

- Michael Morpurgo

"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."

- Karl Menninger

"I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think."

- Socrates

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

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

- Joseph Addison

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

- Mark van Doren

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

- Japanese Proverb

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

- Margaret Mead

"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

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."

- George Bernard Shaw

"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book."

- Groucho Marx

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."

- James Madison

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Helen Keller

"Individuals who believe their talents can be developed (through hard work, good strategies, and input from others) have a growth mindset. They tend to achieve more than those with a more fixed mindset (those who believe their talents are innate gifts)."

- Carol Dweck

"Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you’ll never grow from it."

- Jim Rohn

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think!"

- Albert Einstein

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

"A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change everything!"

"Children learn more from who you are than what you teach."

"The influence of a good teacher can never be erased."

"Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions."