Education Quotes

"In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs."

- Andrew Yang

"It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers."

- Rahm Emanuel

"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive. Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

- Henry Peter Brougham

"Education is the ability to meet life’s situations."

- John G. Hibben

"I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back."

- Fred Allen

"Everything is Learnable"

- Brian Tracy

"School is a good place – it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people."

- J. Cole

"With a growth mindset, kids don’t necessarily think that there’s no such thing as talent or that everyone is the same, but they believe everyone can develop their abilities through hard work, strategies, and lots of help and mentoring from others."

- Carol Dweck

"Education’s purpose is to replace and empty mind with an open one."

- Malcolm Forbes

"Freedom is won, not on the battlefield, nor in the political arena, but in human imagination and will. To defend a land, you need an army. But to defend freedom, you need education."

- Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z”l

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you."

- BB King

""Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.""

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

- Chinese Proverb

"If we love our children and want them to thrive, we must allow them more time and opportunity to play, not less. Yet policymakers and powerful philanthropists are continuing to push us in the opposite direction — toward more schooling, more testing, more adult direction of children, and less opportunity for free play."

- Peter Gray

"In the real estate business you learn more about people and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of."

- Johnny Isakson

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

- René Descartes

"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to use its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others."

- Tryon Edwards

"If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them."

- Bell Hooks

"You can pay for school but you can’t buy class."

- Jay-Z

"Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life."

- W.E.B. Du Bois

"The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of the individual."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Don’t learn safety by accident; learn it beforehand to avoid one."

- Author Unknown

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. … Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Learning begins in the storytelling silence between thoughts."

"Learning thrives in the company of brave, imperfect questions."