Education Quotes

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

- Derek Bok

"I’m not convinced I know how to read, I’ve just memorized a lot of words."

- Nick Miller

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."

- Harold Geneen

"Don’t let schooling interfere with your education."

- Mark Twain

"The best students are those who never quite believe their professors."

- James C. Collins

"The library is every child’s lighthouse. It is every person’s sanctuary. It is every town and country’s fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion, and bad behavior."

- Amy Bloom

"It’s necessary to find a mentor who can invest time to know your personal capabilities and business model."

- Nigel Davies

"With breast cancer, it’s all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do."

- Bill Rancic

"Nothing develops intelligence like travel."

- Emile Zola

"One must travel to learn."

- Mark Twain

"To study accounting is to become fluent in the language of financial legislation."

- Michael Johnson

"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."

- Dr. Seuss

"You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child."

- Dr. Seuss

"If they can’t learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn."

- O. Ivar Lovaas

"The role of a teacher is to ignite a spark in a student’s mind, but you have to know what kind of spark you’re dealing with."

- Temple Grandin

"Never memorize something that you can look up."

- Albert Einstein

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."

- Albert Einstein

"Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential."

- Condoleezza Rice

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

- James Baldwin

"There is no boy, at this age, cute enough or interesting enough to stop you from getting an education, If I had worried about who liked me and who thought I was cute when I was your age, I wouldn’t be married to the President of the United States."

- Michelle Obama

"These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country."

- Harry Belafonte

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."

- Clarence Thomas

"Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities."

- Armstrong Williams

"And say: My Lord, increase me in knowledge."

- Quran 20:114

"Do not tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled."

- Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

"Adventures are the best way to learn."

"The study is important. But travel is more important!"

"Traveling is the best way to learn and gain."

"Knowledge is not what is memorized. Knowledge is what benefits."

"Knowledge is the life of the mind."