50 Inspirational Education Quotes to Ignite Your Passion for Learning

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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.

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

- Abigail Adams

"Learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."

- Peter Drucker

"One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"I touch the future. I teach."

- Christa McAuliffe

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

- Brad Henry

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Education is the key to unlock a golden door of freedom."

- George Washington Carver

"If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher."

- Stephen Hawking

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

- Malcolm S. Forbes

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- John F. Kennedy

"Education is one thing no one can take away from you."

- Elin Nordegren

"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom."

- George Washington Carver

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

- Maimonides

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

- Albert Einstein

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The ability to read, write, and analyze; the confidence to stand up and demand justice and equality; the qualifications and connections to get your foot in the door and take your seat at the table — all of that starts with education."

- Michelle Obama

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."

- Mortimer Adler

"The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."

- Jean Piaget

"The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress in every society, in every family."

- Kofi Annan

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."

- Abigail Adams

"Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field."

- Brian Tracy

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vince Lombardi

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

- Plutarch

"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future."

- Christine Gregoire

"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom."

- Michael Morpurgo

"A good teacher is like the rising sun that comes to fill the empty and dark minds with the light of the education."

- Anamika Mishra

"Invest in our teachers, and our children will succeed."

- Barack Obama

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."

- Richard Feynman

"True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way."

- Doris Lessing

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."

- Marian Wright Edelman

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

- BB King

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

- Isaac Asimov

"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."

- Confucius

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

- Henry Ford

"One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."

- Winston Churchill

"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."

- Colleen Wilcox

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

- Albert Einstein

"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."

- Phil Collins

"Those who know do. Those that understand, teach."

- Aristotle

"One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."

- Frank Herbert

"Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me."

- P. J. Abdul Kalam

"A gifted teacher is not only prepared to meet the needs of today’s child but is also prepared to foresee the hopes and dreams in every child’s future."

- Robert John Meehan

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

- William A. Ward

"Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers."

- Josef Albers

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

- Aristotle

"Education is the key which will unlock the door of opportunity for you."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system."

- Sidney Hook

"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

- Horace Mann

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

- W.E.B. Du Bois

"The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

- Aristotle

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

- George Santayana

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

- Herbert Spencer

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

- Mark Twain

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth."

- Dan Rather

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

- Margaret Mead

"Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students."

- Solomon Ortiz

"When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts."

- Dalai Lama

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

- Carl W. Buechner

"It is the teacher that makes the difference. Not the classroom."

- Michael Morpurgo

"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the education system."

- Sidney Hook

"Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon."

- Ann Lieberman

"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes."

- Guy Kawasaki

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

- Henry Adams

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

- C. S. Lewis

"One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you’ll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do."

- Earl Nightingale

"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges."

- Joyce Meyer

"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."

- Karl Menninger

"You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way."

- Marvin Minsky

"Give me a fish, and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish, and I eat for a lifetime."

- Chinese Proverb

"A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others."

- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

"A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils."

- Ever Garrison

"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.

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."

- Henry Ford

"Some people change the world. And some people change the people who change the world, and that’s you."

- Kij Johnson

"What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

- Cicero

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching kids what counts is best."

- Bob Talbert

"Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius."

- Michael J. Gelb

"Teachers can make such a profound impact on our lives and should be honored as heroes."

- Rainn Wilson

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

- Marian Wright Edelman

"You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it."

- J.D. Salinger

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

- Henry Ford

"A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed."

- Justin Trudeau

"To teach is to learn twice."

- Joseph Joubert

"The more you learn, the more you earn."

- Warren Buffett

"Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life."

- Brad Henry

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Education is the foundation of all we do in life. It shapes who we are and what we aspire to be."

- Julie Payette

"He who laughs most, learns best."

- John Cleese

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."

- E. M. Forster

"Teachers can change lives with the right mix of chalk and challenges."

- Joyce Meyer

"[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."

- Jim Henson

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."

- Robert Frost

"Nine-tenths of education is encouragement."

- Anatole France

"The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future."

- F. Sionil Jose

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

- Mark van Doren

"If kids come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job easier. Our job is more critical if they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families."

- Barbara Colorose

"To this end, the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher."

- John Strachan

"Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth."

- Helen Caldicott

"The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike."

- H. L. Mencken

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."

- Alexander the Great

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."

- Steve Irwin

"All real education is the architecture of the soul."

- William Bennett

"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."

- Maya Angelou

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

- Helen Keller

"Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life."

- Shakuntala Devi

"A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard."

- Eliphas Levi

"Teachers are the one and only people who save nations."

- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

"Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

- Ezra Pound

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

- Publilius Syrus

"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."

- Nancy Astor

"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."

- Norman Cousins

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

- Daniel J. Boorstin

"The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

- Bram Stoker

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values."

- William S. Burroughs

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

- Peter Brougham

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- BB King

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

- Allan Bloom

"A child without education is like a bird without wings."

- Tibetan Proverb

"Learning is not compulsory… Neither is survival."

- W. Edwards Deming

"What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning."

- Chuck Grassley

"Education is the vaccine of violence."

- Edward James Olmos

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

- Albert Einstein

"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation."

- Walter Cronkite

"They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel."

- Carl W. Buehner

"Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late."

- Max Forman

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant."

- Edward Everett

"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."

- Japanese Proverb

"Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that’s because you’re a teacher."

- Aaron Bacall

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."

- Bob Talbert

"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated."

- Frederick William Robertson

"If you can read this, thank a teacher."

- American Proverb

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."

- Thomas Carruthers

"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."

- Horace Mann

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

"A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers."

- Gwendolyn Brooks

"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."

- John Ruskin

"I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."

- William Morris

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theater."

- Gail Godwin

"Being a new teacher is like trying to fly an airplane while building it."

- Rick Smith

"The older I got, the smarter my teachers became."

- Ally Carter

"Being a teacher is a lot like being a rock star."

- Heidi McDonald

"Educators are the only people who lose sleep over other people’s kids."

- Nicholas A. Ferroni

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."

- William Butler Yeats

"Teachers who love teaching, teach children to love learning."

"My teacher gave me the best gift of all… Believing in me!"

"Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care."

- Anonymous

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change everything!"

"Children learn more from who you are than what you teach."

"Teachers are those who help find strengths, wipe away tears, overpower demons and conquer fears."

"Every child is gifted. They just unwrap their packages at different times."

"It takes a big heart to shape little minds."

"A teacher presents the past, reveals the present, and creates the future."

"Teacher: A person who helps you solve problems you’d never have without them."

"Good teachers are the ones who can challenge young minds without losing their own."

"It takes a big heart to help shape little minds."

- Unknown

"There are three good reasons to be a teacher –June, July, and August."

"To survive as a teacher you need 3 bones: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."

"Teaching is a walk in the park. If that park is Jurassic park."

"Teaching: the only profession where you steal things from home and bring them to work."

"The influence of a good teacher can never be erased."