150+ Education Quotes That Prove Learning Never Ends

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

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

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

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.

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

All of life is a constant education.

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

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

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

Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.

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

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

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.