Education Quotes

"The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel."

- John Glenn

"Direct selling is better than a graduate degree when it comes to developing skills for success."

- Jim Rohn

"The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay."

- Henry Ford

"I want to be a figure for the need for music education"

- Sheila E.

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."

- Plato

"We educate women because it is smart. We educate women because it changes the world."

- Drew Fuast

"Girls’ education is the single best investment that any society can make."

- Carol Bellamy

"Preschool is people to be unfolded, not things to be molded."

- Jess Lair

"Start preschool on the right path, and they will not stray even when they are old."

- Proverbs 22:6

"Preschool must be taught how to think rather than what to think."

- Margaret Mead

"Play is frequently mentioned as a diversion from serious learning. For preschool, however, play is serious learning. “Childhood work is play.”"

- Fred Rogers

"How freely we exchange ideas and feelings preserves or diminishes our code and standards, our heritage and ideals- the things we live by and teach preschoolers."

- Walt Disney

"Education is not filling a pot, but lighting a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

"Teaching is the highest form of comprehension."

- Aristotle

"I can’t teach anyone anything; all I can do is make them think."

- Socrates

"Those who are aware do. Those who comprehend, teach."

- Aristotle

"Good Teaching is easily recognized. You can always tell because it awakens that sensation within you that tells you this is something you’ve always known."

- Frank Herbert

"Teaching is simply demonstrating that something is possible. Learning is doing it for yourself."

- Paulo Coelho

"The ability to say, 'The kids are working today as if I don’t even exist,' is the best indicator of a teacher’s success."

- Maria Montessori

"The teacher’s job is to start the learning process and then step back."

- John Warren

"Teaching is the indispensable profession, the one that allows all other professions to exist."

- David Haselkorn

"The message in teaching is the method, not the content."

- Ashley Montague

"The art of teaching is to know how to suggest."

- Henri Frédéric Amiel

"Educate the preschools, and men will not need to be punished."

- Pythagoras

"The highest form of understanding is teaching."

- Aristotle

"Education is not about filling a pail, but about starting a fire."

- William Butler Yeats

"It is not what is poured into a student, but what is planted."

- Linda Conway

"Education is the ticket to the future because those who prepare for it today will own it in the future."

- Malcolm X

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher … is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.'”"

- Maria Montessori

"If you want to change the world, invest in an early childhood teacher."

- Andy Hargreaves