100+ Education Quotes & Sayings

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

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Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

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A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

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Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.

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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

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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.

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Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

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People think of education as something they can finish.

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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

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

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

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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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

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When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

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

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

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

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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.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

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Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

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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.

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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

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Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

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

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By seeking and blundering we learn.

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

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