Education Quotes

"All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Students can't dream big when classrooms lack books, microscopes, and robotics kits - or even paper, pencils, and paste."

- Charles Best

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

- Socrates

"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all."

- Socrates

"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."

- Nelson Mandela

"Education, work, and access to health care for all are key elements for development and the just distribution of goods, for the attainment of social justice, for membership in society, and for free and responsible participation in political life."

- Pope Francis

"To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound."

- Steve Carlton

"Mother is her son’s first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all – how to love."

- T.F. Hodge

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

- Oscar Wilde

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

- Oscar Wilde

"If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path but teach him to walk firmly over them—not insist upon leading him by the hand but let him learn to go alone."

- Anne Bronte

"“Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth . . .”"

- R.D. Blackmore

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."

- Albert Einstein

"Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life."

- Plato

"Education cost money. But then again so does ignorance."

- Sir Claus Moser

""Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.""

- Mark Twain

"I will never be a stupid girl... and neither should you. Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before... it's also much easier -- and much more fun. A good education is one of the greatest gifts you could ever give yourself."

- Pink

"In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite."

- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States

"There is no single best way to teach because there is no single best way to learn."

- Chris Dede, education researcher and innovator

"I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm."

- Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist

"You never teach a subject, you always teach a child. You teach children in a way that they will learn, and then things will fall in place for them."

- Dorothy Height, civil rights and women’s rights activist

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."

- Fred Rogers, host of “Mister Rogers Neighborhood”

"Studying is an investment in yourself. It always pays off in the end."

"Study for knowledge, not just grades."

"Education is the compass that guides us through the maze of life. Keep studying, keep exploring."

"Study not to escape life, but so that life doesn’t escape you."

"Education illuminates the path."

"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to sons."

"A mother’s love is the greatest teacher."

"The knowledge of this year is the foundation for the knowledge learned in the next."