Great Education Quotes

Enjoy our collection of great education quotes. One of our favourites is a proverb that goes like this, You are never to old to learn. We hope these motivational quotes and sayings motivate you to see life as a continuous learning experience and to never stop learning.

Great Education Quotes:
"Education is learning what you
didn't even know you didn't know."
Daniel J. Boorstin

"Today knowledge has power.
It controls access to opportunity and advancement."
Peter F. Drucker

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

"Just don't let anyone else set your goals-you do it yourself.
Only you know what you want,
and only you know what's realistic."
Yogi Berra

"All men by nature desire knowledge."
Aristotle

"Personally, I am always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught."
Winston Churchill

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

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something
than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney

The most important object in Boy Scout training
is to educate, not instruct.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell



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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. Confucius

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves. Robert Hutchins

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert M. Hutchins

You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think. The Talmud

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. John Ruskin

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Emma Golmam

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. Clay P. Bedford

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. Will Durant

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.Theodore Roosevelt

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. Chinese Proverbs

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. George Savile

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves. Adam Cooper & Bill Collage

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die. J. Gatto

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. Frank Herbert

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

Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes. Panchatantra

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb

Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotle

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle

The whole object of education is to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. Sherwood Anderson

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes Laertius

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. Samuel Johnson

You learn something every day if you pay attention. Ray LeBlond

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. Horace Mann

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