Education Quotes
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Loading ...Heard of the saying, “I am still learning.” by Michelangelo
These are some of my favorite education quotes. I hope you will like them.
“It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.”
~William Ellery Channing
“Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.”
~ Perelman
“Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don’t know.”
~ R. Verdi
“College isn’t the place to go for ideas.”
~Hellen Keller
“Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends.”
~Benjamin Disraeli, and only Obama seem to understand it, from his speeches at least.
“Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.”
~Chinese Saying
“She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.”
~John Mason Brown
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
~ Henry Brooks Adams
“Learning is finding out what you already know”
~Richard Bach
“You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.”
~Ethel Barrymore
“History is Philosophy teaching by examples.”
~Thucydides
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
~Malcolm Forbes
“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
~ Tom Bodett
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
~Galileo Galilei
“Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.”
~St. Francis Xavier
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
~Alec Bourne
“Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.”
~Rosabeth Moss Kantor
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
~Will Durant
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
~Winston Churchill
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
~George Bernard Shaw
“Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
~Alec Bourne
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
~Herbert Spencer
“Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.”
~Wendy Kaminer
“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
~Oscar Wilde
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
~Malcolm Forbes
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
~Epictetus
“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.”
~Bill Beattie
“Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
~ Henry Peter Broughan
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