Education Quotes

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Marian Wright Edelman

"Education is the foundation of all we do in life. It shapes who we are and what we aspire to be."

- Julie Payette

"Once you stop learning, you start dying."

- Albert Einstein

"The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics."

- Paul Halmos

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."

- Marian Wright Edelman

"They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it is in the home, school, or any place."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."

- Robert Lewin

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."

- Ernest Dimnet

"Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything."

- George Carlin

"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 Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, read, read, read."

- Ernest Gaines

"You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way."

- Marvin Minsky

"Education is a continual process. It’s like a bicycle…if you don’t pedal, you don’t go forward."

- George Weah

"There’s more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island."

- Walt Disney

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

- Victor Hugo

"It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning."

- Agnes Repplier

"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

"Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way."

- George Evans

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

- Malcolm X

"Education is one thing no one can take away from you."

- Elin Nordegren

"A person who won’t read has no advantage over a person who can’t read."

- Mark Twain

"Education is the key to unlock a golden door of freedom."

- George Washington Carver

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."

- John F. Kennedy

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

- George Santayana

"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, Jr.

"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

- Horace Mann

"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."

- Steve Irwin

"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system."

- Sidney Hook

"You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing."