Great Educational Quotes:

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

- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

source: Attributed; no source found

topic: Education, People, Impossible, Teacher Student, Student Learning

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Sad, Education, Intellectual Curiosity, Intelligence And Education

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

- William Haley

topic: Girl, School, Learning, Intelligence And Education, Leaving School

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Educational, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Learning

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

- Jacob Bronowski

source: "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Knowledge Education, Knowledge Learning

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

- John Dewey

topic: Life, Inspiring, Education, Unschooling, Inspirational Education

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

- Mark Twain

topic: Funny, Life, Graduation, Going Back To School, First Day Of School

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

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

- Henry Adams

source: The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Teacher, Inspirational Education

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

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Social Power, Social Studies

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Live And Learn, Inspirational Education

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

- Winston Churchill

topic: Funny, Leadership, Education, Managing Change, Going Back To School

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

- Abigail Adams

topic: Education, Learning, School, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

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

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Education, Keep An Open Mind

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Learning, Inspirational School

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Education, Character, Goal, Good Character, Inspirational Character

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Education, Inspirational Educational, Spiritual Education

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

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

- James Dewar

topic: Business, Mind, Function, Alcoholics Anonymous, Open Mindedness

The highest result of education is tolerance.

- Helen Keller

topic: Forgiveness, Education, Appreciation, Great Teacher, Patience And Tolerance

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

- G. M. Trevelyan

source: English Social History ch. 18 (1942)

topic: Education, Reading, Teaching, Methods Of Teaching, Intelligence And Education

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

topic: Education, Wisdom, School, Children And Education, Educational Change

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

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspiring Education, Inspiring Educational

The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.

- Meladee McCarty

topic: Educational, Kids, Matter, Inspirational Educational, Free Education

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

- Plato

topic: Children, Teaching, Mind, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

- Marva Collins

source: Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

topic: Children, Educational, Brilliant, Children Education, Great Educational

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

- Aristotle

topic: Success, Education, Teaching, Related To Education, Adversity And Character

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

- John Lubbock

topic: Education, Appreciation, Teacher, Inspirational Educational, Knowledge Education

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Life, Wisdom, Fun, Special Talents, Inspirational Educational

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Children, Educational, Learning, Inspirational Learning, Intelligence And Education

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Joy Of Learning

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

- Matthew Kelly

topic: Prayer, Reading, Exercise, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Staying Young, Stay In School

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.

- Grayson L. Kirk

topic: Educational, Personality, Important, Education Is Important, Great Educational

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Teacher, Men, Easy, Related To Education, Teachers And Teaching

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

- Patricia Neal

source: Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Expectations, Inspiring Educational, Great Teacher

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

source: Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).

topic: Learning, Mind, Function, Alcoholics Anonymous, Parachutes

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Education, Goal, Individual, Education System, Education Today

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Education, Mistake, Mean, Unschooling, Methods Of Teaching

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Education, Emotional, Intelligence, Inspirational Educational, Great Education

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Education, Mistake, Believe, Free Education, Philosophy Of Education

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

- Tryon Edwards

source: " A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 134), 1891.

topic: Education, Teacher, Learning, Daily Discipline, What Is Education

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. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

- William Feather

source: "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

topic: Education, Memories, Teaching, Inspirational Educational, What Is Education

The more you read, the more things you will know.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Library Cards, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Children

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

- William Feather

source: "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

topic: Education, Teaching, Learning, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

- Anatole France

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Teacher, Math Education, Spring Awakening

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Education, School, Years, Public Education, Education Today