150+ Education Quotes That Prove Learning Never Ends

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

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

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

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

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

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.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

People think of education as something they can finish.

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