Importance Of Education Quotes:

The importance of education plays a huge role.

- Wes Moore

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Play, Roles, Importance Of 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

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

- Plato

topic: Teacher, Men, Determine, Inspiring Education, Inspiring Educational

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

- John Dewey

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

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

- B. B. King

source: "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Learning To Read, Inspirational Education

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Decision, Analysis, Investing, Best Investment, Good Money

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Education, Travel, Math Education, Math Teacher

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

- George Washington Carver

topic: Education, Freedom, Teaching, Knowledge Education, Inspiring Education

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

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

- Aristotle

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

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

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

topic: Education, Teacher, Children, Happy Children, Inspirational 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

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

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

- James A. Garfield

source: Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

topic: Education, Teacher, Teaching, Knowledge Education, Education And Freedom

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Independence Of Thought, About Success

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

- Alvin Toffler

source: "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Futurist, Learning To Read

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation, Inspirational Learning, Inspiring Education

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

- Allan Bloom

source: Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

topic: Education, Light, Darkness, Darkness To Light, Students And Education

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Education, May, Literacy, Public Education, Public School

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

- Edward Everett

source: "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

topic: Education, Freedom, War, Student Learning, First Day Of School

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Education, Lying, Learning, Students And Education, What Is Education

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

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.

topic: Funny, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Learning

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

- Sidney Sugarman

topic: Teacher, Children, Thinking, Happy Children, Kid At Heart

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Graduation, Education, Time, Unschooling, Grad

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

- Brigham Young

topic: Family, Education, Women, Female Empowerment, Inspirational Feminist

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant

topic: Graduation, Education, Witty, Medical Education, Inspirational Education

No one can take it away from you.

- B. B. King

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

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

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

- Erich Fromm

topic: Love, Family, Happiness, Students And Education, Education System

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

- Robert Frost

topic: Inspirational, Education, Patience, Learning To Read, Bad Temper

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

topic: Education, Teacher, Teaching, Public Education, Inspiring Education

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

- Confucius

topic: Education, Homeschooling, Certain Knowledge, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Education

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

- B. F. Skinner

source: New Scientist 21 May 1964

topic: Graduation, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Inspirational Graduation

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

- Mark Van Doren

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

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

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 know and what you don't.

- Anatole France

source: "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

topic: Education, Memories, Learning, Inspirational Educational, You Think You Know

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 without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

- Confucius

topic: Education, Wise, Clever, Independent Thinking, Independent Thought

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Children, Educational, Real, Being At Peace, Against War

My parents always stressed the importance of education, working hard in school and learning as much as possible. They also encouraged me to value myself and believe in myself and do what I thought was right for me.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Believe, School, Parent, Importance Of Education

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

- Russell Baker

topic: Education, Information, Educated, Incomplete Information, Educated Person

If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.

- Malcolm X

topic: Country, Stressed, Consciousness, Importance Of Education

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Education, Becoming Obsolete, Importance Of Education

I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private-school kids. I want them to behave well by example. I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.

- Wendi Deng Murdoch

topic: Girl, Children, Nice, Importance Of Education

As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

- Naveen Jain

topic: Children, Keys, Parent, Illiteracy, Importance Of Education

What did you ASK at school today?

- Richard P. Feynman

topic: Educational, Teaching, School, Importance Of Education

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

- Dylan Thomas

topic: Education, Reading, Eye, Hanging Around, Importance Of Education