Education Quotes

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

- Helen Keller

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future."

- Plato

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- BB King

"Your education is a weapon that can change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper."

- Polly Horvath

"Come with me,' Mom says.To the library. Books and summertimego together."

- Lisa Schroeder

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

- Henry Adams

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

- Bob Talbert

"Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together."

- Scott Hayden

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

- Brad Henry

"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes."

- Guy Kawasaki

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

- G.K. Chesterton

"The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed."

- Anne Sullivan

"Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents."

- Roger Moore

"Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."

- Lady Bird Johnson

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

- Alexandra K. Trenfor

"If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much."

- Marian Wright Edelman

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre."

- Gail Godwin

"When you study great teachers … you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style."

- William Glasser

"Teaching is a calling too. And I’ve always thought that teachers in their way are holy — angels leading their flocks out of the darkness."

- Jeannette Walls

"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

"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."

- James Dewar

"I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!"

- David Vitter

"Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will never see."

- Elijah Cummings

"Information may be free, an education is priceless."

- Marie Forleo

"Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher."

- Arne Duncan

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"Your education is a gift that nobody can take away from you."