Education Quotes

""Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.""

- BB King

"The highest result of education is tolerance"

- Helen Keller

"With ignorance comes fear – from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance."

- Kathleen Patel

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

- Daniel J. Boorstin

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

- Malcom Forbes

"Unless we teach children peace, someone else will teach them violence."

- Colman McCarthy

"La educación es, tal vez, la forma más alta de buscar a Dios"

- Gabriela Mistral

"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves."

- Joseph Campbell

"There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them."

- Zig Ziglar

"It's not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings."

- Ann Landers

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth"

- John F. Kennedy

"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain"

- John F. Kennedy

"No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power"

- John F. Kennedy

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource"

- John F. Kennedy

"Won't it be wonderful when black history and Native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history."

- Maya Angelou

"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."

- Morgan Freeman

"National Black History Month serves as both a celebration and a powerful reminder that Black history is American history, Black culture is American culture, and Black stories are essential to the ongoing story of America—our faults, our struggles, our progress, and our aspirations. Shining a light on Black history today is as important to understanding ourselves and growing stronger as a Nation as it has ever been."

- Joe Biden

"A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

- Marcus Garvey

"I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Black History Month is more than a celebration. It's a powerful reminder that Black history is American history…it's critical that we take the time to celebrate the contributions of Black Americans, honor the legacy of generations past, reckon with centuries of injustice and confront injustice that still festers today."

- President Joe Biden

"When you control a man's thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions."

- Carter G. Woodson

"The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself."

- Carter G. Woodson

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."

- Francis Bacon

"When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

- Mark Twain

"There are two types of education…One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live."

- John Adams

"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."

- Edward Thorndike