100+ Education Quotes & Sayings

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

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Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

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

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All of life is a constant education.

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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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Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

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You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

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

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

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You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

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The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

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Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

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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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When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

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

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

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The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

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People think of education as something they can finish.

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

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

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

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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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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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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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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

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