Education Quotes

"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."

- W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist and sociologist

"Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense."

- Arne Duncan, former U.S. Secretary of Education

"Education is something we have to keep pursuing day after day."

- Premier Brian Gallant

"The best way to teach someone a lesson is to teach it to them."

- Ted Lasso

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

- Anatole France

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."

- Frank Zappa

"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."

- Henri Frederic Amiel

"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim."

- Linton Weeks

"If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research."

- Alan Dundes

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories."

- Ray Bradbury

"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."

- Groucho Marx

"I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy."

- Malala Yousafzai

"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education."

- Harold Howe

"My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."

- Isaac Asimov

"Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today’s world. Libraries are everyman’s free university."

- John Jakes

"Librarians are committed to promoting lifelong learning in order to create a community of well-informed individuals. Librarians are catalysts to enlightenment for their communities."

- Louise Capizzo

"What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated."

- Michael E. Gorman

"In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me."

- Maya Angelou

"Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative."

- John Dewey

"Positive psychology is not a self-help movement. It is a science, with its roots in academia and its rigor sharpened by research."

- Martin Seligman

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

- B. F. Skinner

"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Learn, compare, collect the facts!"

- Ivan Pavlov

"Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select — doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant chief and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors."

- John B. Watson

"Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit."

- Ivan Pavlov

"Children should be able to do their own experimenting and their own research. Teachers, of course, can guide them by providing appropriate materials, but the essential thing is that in order for a child to understand something, he must construct it himself, he must re-invent it. Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand that which we allow him to discover by himself will remain with him visibly for the rest of his life."

- Jean Piaget

"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered."

- Jean Piaget

"Learn. Act. Teach"

"The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider"

"By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own."