Education Quotes

"School is a building which has four walls with tomorrow inside."

- Lon Watters

"Think about every problem, every challenge we face. The solution starts with education."

- George H.W. Bush

"Education doesn’t make us smarter. It makes us whole."

- Jill Biden

"Nothing prevents boredom like a good book."

- Dave Pilkey

"Knowledge — that is, education in its true sense — is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles."

- R.L. Stine

"The road to freedom — here and everywhere on earth — begins in the classroom."

- Hubert Humphrey

"The more that you read, the more things you know, the more learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music."

- Gerald Ford

"Our greatest natural resource is in the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

"The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not graduation day."

- Harry Wong

"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

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"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

"We don't stop going to school when we graduate."

- Carol Burnett

"Education is the difference between wishing you could help other people and being able to help them."

- Russell M. Nelson

"Intelligence plus character — that is the true goal of education."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A child's first teacher is its mother."

- Peng Liyuan

"Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from one generation to the next."

- Laurie Anderson

"You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free."

- Paul Rand

"When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes—remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education—make a boy observe, induce him to be patient, and let him learn to notice everything in nature, and I will have laid the foundation for an excellent man."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Give a man a fish, and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish, and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend."

- Zenna Schaffer

"When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son."

- The Talmud

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."

- George Herbert

"Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

- John Steinbeck

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

- Socrates

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see."

- Alexandra K. Trenfor

"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."

- Robert M. Hutchins

"A child who reads will be an adult who thinks."

- Sasha Salmina

"A single game teaches humility, teamwork, and passion"