Education Quotes

"If you are only a student of technique, then the options become very limited. On the other hand, when you are a student of the horse, the options are unlimited."

- Mark Rashid

"No estudio para saber más, sino para ignorar menos"

- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

- Plutarch

"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."

- Jhumpa Lahiri

"The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges."

- Nicholas A. Christakis

"I cannot stress a greater importance than to teach the young generation about the risks of unhealthy eating. A great way to pique their interest in nutrition is to involve them more in the cooking process. They not only will learn to cook for themselves, but also develop a lifetime of healthy habits."

- Marcus Samuelsson

"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en. In brief, sir, study what you most affect."

- William Shakespeare

"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave."

- Frederick Douglass

"The American education system has taught us as children that Black people have history in pain and survival. They have failed to teach us our history in joy, success, innovations and so much more. Juneteenth is a reclaim on our history that has been stolen."

- Nia White

"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

- Winston Churchill

"Everyone who remembers his own educational experience remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the kingpin of the educational situation."

- Sidney Hook

"If you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn."

- Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

"how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him."

- Jean Rostand

"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."

- Simon Newcomb

"The whole secret of the teacher’s force lies in the conviction that men are convertible."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization."

- Helen Keller

"The good man is the teacher of the bad, and the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, or greatly care for the material, is greatly deluded."

- Lao Tzu

"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher."

- Leo Tolstoy

"My studies gave me only a very superficial knowledge of philosophy but sharpened my interest in it. I benefited greatly from being a teacher—that is, from being able to spend a great deal of time reading, writing and educating myself."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries."

- Lao Tzu

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."

- Bill Gates

"Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught."

- Oscar Hammerstein II

"Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me."

- Rob Sheffield

"When I was sixteen I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B. Billings, who said, “I can’t understand this at all, dear, so it must be good.”"

- Margaret Atwood

"The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we’re so anxious not to see."

- C.S. Lewis

"Gracias, estoy aprendiendo español así puedo hablar con pacientes cuando soy una dentista. Incluso si no uso esos expresionistas, quiero entenderlos."

"The act of learning is truly a gift."