150+ Education Quotes That Prove Learning Never Ends

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

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

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

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

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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

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

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

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.