Education Quotes

"True education aims to develop both intelligence and character."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Teaching is the highest form of understanding."

- Aristotle

"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading."

- Michael Jackson

"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall."

- Vince Lombardi

"Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil."

- Walt Disney

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Education cost money, but then so does ignorance."

- Claus Moser

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

- Joseph Addison

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

- Erich Fromm

"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

- Robert Lee Frost

"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."

- Thomas Paine

"The mere imparting of information is not education."

- Carter G. Woodson

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

- Edmund Burke

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."

- Anatole France

"Education is freedom."

- Paulo Freire

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."

- James Thurber

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."

- Thomas Jefferson

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

- Maya Angelou

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

- Norman Cousins

"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

- Blaise Pascal

"The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education."

- Mark Twain

"The person with the biggest impact on your education is you"

- Michelle Obama

"The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action."

- Herbert Spencer

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

- John Dewey

"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers."

- Jean Piaget

"Once you learn to read you will forever be free."

"You taught us more than subjects; you taught us how to embrace knowledge and cherish wisdom. Rest peacefully, dear teacher."