Education Quotes

"The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is not training them and keeping them."

- Zig Ziglar

"Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books—where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables as we did in Kansas."

- Langston Hughes

"With really good literature you’re allowed to take multiple journeys as your perspective shifts over time. It continues to resonate, as you find different ways of entering and engaging with the narrative."

- Glory Edim

"Education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know."

- W.E.B. Du Bois

"Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better."

- Carter G. Woodson

"We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?"

- Sidney Poitier

"Children don't carry the weight of history, so their capacity for heavy things might be greater. But few adults believe this, so we pass along only what we think they can bear. Children wonder later why we didn't tell them everything so they could avoid our mistakes."

- Daniel Black

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Books are the ammunition of life."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education."

- Julius Erving

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

- Plato

"I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy."

- Adam Hamilton

"There’s a way to preach the Bible unbiblically…You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can’t you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, ‘That was amazing, wasn’t it? Remarkable what he got out of that.’ Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out."

- Alistair Begg

"Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Victor Hugo

"A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded."

- D. Martin

"The art of teaching is to teach, to teach well, and to teach even better."

- Henri Frederic Amiel

"Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance."

- Peter Drucker

"Teaching is not about answers but about questions; not about knowing but about learning; not about the destination but about the journey."

- Glenn Doman

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

- Alexandra K. Trenfor

"All students can learn and succeed, but not in the same way and not in the same day."

- William G. Spady

"Prevent truth decay. Brush up on your Bible."

"Read the Bible - God's version of the Christmas story."

"Fight truth decay. Read the Bible."

"Trouble with truth decay? Brush up on the Bible."

"I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession."

"A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

"Students don’t deserve mediocre teachers… Students deserve great teachers."