Education Quotes

"There is no substitute for books in the life of a child."

- May Ellen Chase

"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!"

- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

- Victor Hugo

"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't."

- Mark Twain

"I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book."

- Coolio

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away. And in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall."

- Roald Dahl

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him."

- Maya Angelou

"There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book."

- Frank Serafini

"It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading."

- Katherine Patterson

"So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky."

- William James

"Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial."

- L.R. Knost

"Read, read, read."

- William Faulkner

"Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends."

- Karen Witemeyer

"A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever."

- Louis L'Amour

"Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything."

- Tomie dePaola

"It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can."

- Jane Hamilton

"A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read."

- Mark Twain

"Comics are a gateway drug to literacy."

- Art Spiegelman

"College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about."

- J. Cole

"I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself."

- Robin Williams

"Discipline is helping a child solve a problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem-solvers, focus on solutions not retribution."

- L.R. Knost

"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all."

- Benjamin Spock

"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- Jim Rohn

"The aim of education should be teaching us how to think, rather than what to think."

- James Beatti

"Imagine if every child learned the respect, courtesy and discipline martial arts teaches."

- Chris Whamond

"A good instructor teaches students how to fight, a great instructor teaches students how to live."

- Ricardo Almeida

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Daniel J. Boorstin

"They do not live that do not read."