150+ Education Quotes That Prove Learning Never Ends

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.

By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.

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

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.