Education Quotes

"Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small."

- Albert Einstein

"Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers."

- Confucius

"Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who appreciate him and those who don’t. Shape yourself in his mold, bathe in his nourishing radiance, and reflect it out to the rest of the world."

- Lao Tzu

"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher and cannot be esteemed highly enough."

- Carl Jung

"A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live."

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Not to keep from error, is the duty of the educator of men, but to guide the erring one, even to let him swill his error out of full cups—that is the wisdom of teachers."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Unless you learn how to be in your head, you’ll never learn how to create."

- Lin Manuel Miranda

"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."

- James Baldwin

"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."

- James Baldwin

"A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled."

- James Baldwin

"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

- James Baldwin

"I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter."

- Jay-Z

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically."

- King, Martin Luther, Jr.

"If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns."

- Rita Dunn

"All of life is a constant education."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds, someone will do it for them."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn."

- Albert Einstein

"A formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

- Jim Rohn

"If you can’t explain an investment in a sentence or two, don’t buy it."

- Peter Lynch

"We have to prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child."

- Tim Elmore

"Too often, we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioral consequences."

- Daniel J. Siegel

"Discipline is helping a child solve a problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem."

- L.R. Knost

"I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats."

- Jeff Kinney

"Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you."

"Happy 90th Birthday! Your love for learning teaches us that curiosity knows no age."

"Educating the mind without educating the heart, is no education at all."

"Children must be taught how to think. Not what to think."

"An education is the only thing no one can ever take away from you."

"By learning, you will teach. By teaching, you will learn."