Education is the main tool to achieve our goals in life. A selection of the most powerful quotes to realize the importance of education.
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great quotes about education
Because education is a necessary and irreplaceable element in life, we have brought you a compilation with the best phrases about education to inspire and motivate you to continue feeding that spirit of curiosity and hunger for knowledge.
1. To teach someone who is not curious to learn is to sow a field without plowing it. (Richard Whatley)
Learning must be sought.
2. A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something and to know how to demand with all his might what he wants. (Paulo Coelho)
They all have something to teach us.
3. The education of the youth is neither little nor very important; it has a universal and absolute repercussion. (Aristotle)
Educated young people can make a positive impact on the world.
4.If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are willing to learn, no one can stop you. (Chinese proverb)
The essence of motivation for learning.
5. To educate is not to give a career to live, but to temper the soul for the difficulties of life. (Pythagoras)
We can overcome obstacles when we study them.
6. Common sense is not the result of education (Victor Hugo)
Values are as important as education.
7. Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn. (Benjamin Franklin)
It is not just about learning, but about putting knowledge into practice.
8. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Aristotle)
It may seem difficult, but it is definitely worth it.
9. I have never let my school instruction interfere with my education. (Mark Twain)
A phrase that refers to the need to be self-taught.
10. Long is the path of teaching through theories; brief and effective by means of examples. (Seneca)
Examples are the best way to understand a topic.
11. Never consider studying as an obligation, but as an opportunity to penetrate the beautiful and wonderful world of knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
Education is the tool that we cannot waste.
12. Education is the lighting of a flame, not the filling of a new one. (Socrates)
It is what arouses our curiosity and innovation.
13. Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. (Nelson Mandela)
No progress has been made without studies.
14. A school system without parents as its foundation is like a bucket with a hole in the bottom. (Jesse Jackson)
Parents are the pillar of education.
15. It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. (Ezra Taft-Benson)
We can choose what information is good for us and what is not.
16. The teacher who tries to teach without inspiring in the student the desire to learn is trying to forge a cold iron. (Horace Mann)
Teachers, more than teaching, must cultivate motivation.
17. The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We were all learners once.
18. Intelligence plus character is the goal of true education. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
It is not enough to access the most prestigious institutions, but to commit to study.
19. The only possible education is this: to be sure enough of a thing to dare to say it to a child. (G. K. Chesterton)
The teachings must be imparted with confidence.
20. The University should insist on what is old and foreign. If it insists on what is proper and what is contemporary, the University is useless, because it is expanding a function that the press already fulfills. (Jorge Luis Borges)
The elements on which the university should concentrate.
21. The goal of education is virtue and the desire to become a good citizen. (Plato)
Knowledge should make us better humans.
22. The supreme art of the teacher is to awaken the pleasure of creative expression and knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
Creativity should never be turned off.
23. Good teaching is one that allows the thought of the other not to be interrupted and that allows him, almost without noticing it, to go in the right direction. (Enrique Tierno Galvan)
Education must go in favor of autonomy.
24. Ignorance is the worst enemy of a people who want to be free. (Jonathan Hennnessey)
Ignorance allows them to suppress a people.
25. With my teachers I have learned a lot; with my colleagues, more; with my students even more. (Hindu proverb)
Teaching is also learning.
26. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. (John Dewey)
You cannot walk through life without knowing something new.
27. It is better to learn late than never. (Publilius Syrus)
There is no time limit to educate ourselves.
28. The man begins, in reality, to be old when he stops being educable. (Arthur Graffe)
The mind needs to work to stay young.
29. A man who has never been to school could rob a freight car, but if he had a college education, he could rob the entire train. (Theodore Roosevelt)
A very curious way of considering the benefit of education.
30. Education helps the person to learn to be what he is capable of being. (Hesiod)
Knowledge makes us discover our passions.
31. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. (Joseph Addison)
An excellent metaphor.
32. The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. (Malcolm Forbes)
The purpose of education.
33. It is almost impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. (James Baldwin)
It is the nations that must be interested and promulgate a good education.
34. We cannot model our children according to our wishes, we must be with them and love them as God has given them to us. (Goeth)
Children’s own dreams must be supported.
35. Education is the movement from darkness to light. (AllanBloom)
Only knowledge can offer us a way out.
36. Our children are only as bright as we allow them to be. (Eric Michael Leventhal)
Stopping creative ability is a very serious mistake.
37. Teaching children to count is good, but teaching them what really counts is better. (Bob Talbert)
It is not only necessary to teach theories but also practices of daily life.
38. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde)
Not everything we need to know is taught to us in school.
39. Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing. (Warren Buffett)
That is why you always have to be prepared.
40. I decided to start over, I stripped myself of everything I had been taught. (Georgia O’Keeffe)
A reference to the fact that sometimes we have to detach ourselves from the imposed beliefs.
41. Education is the development in man of all the perfection of which his nature is capable. (Immanuel Kant)
If we don’t educate ourselves, we can’t know the extent of our abilities.
42. You are always a student, never a teacher. (Conrad Hall)
Every day we learn something different.
43. The most important thing I learned to do after the age of forty was to say no when it means no. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Confidence is also learned to develop.
44. Formal education will make your life; self-education will make you a fortune. (Jim Ron)
The significance of self-education.
45. Children should be taught to think, not what to think. (Margaret Mead)
We must never impose our beliefs or desires on someone.
46. Teaching is learning twice. (Joseph Joubert)
Sharing our knowledge is always an advantage.
47. In matters of culture and knowledge, only what is saved is lost; you only earn what you give. (Antonio Machado)
If you know something, share it.
48. We should not teach what we know, but what the students are capable of learning. (John Comenius)
A reflection on prioritizing the way each person learns.
49. He who opens the door of a school closes a prison. (Victor Hugo)
We need more schools.
50. The principle of education is to lead by example. (Turgot)
When there is motivation you can learn better.
51. The key to education is not teaching, it is waking up. (Ernest Renan)
We must focus on promoting curiosity.
52. There is someone so intelligent that they learn from the experience of others. (Voltaire)
That’s what experiences are for, to be lessons.
53. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never stop growing. (Anthony J. D’Angelo)
When we are passionate about something, we never stop improving.
54. Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. (Walter Cronkite)
Libraries are valuable.
55. Learning is like rowing against the current: as soon as you leave it, you go back. (Edward Benjamin Britten)
The danger of stopping studying is ignorance.
56. Education is our passport to the future, because tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for today. (Malcolm X)
The future is built by prepared people.
57. A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm. (Jostein Gardener)
All people have the right to a quality education.
58. A good teacher has to be able to put himself in the place of those who find it difficult to advance. (Eliphas Levi)
People with learning disabilities just need another point of view.
59. Society pays dearly for the abandonment in which it leaves its children, like all parents who do not educate their children. (Arenal Conception)
Society is responsible for the ignorance of its people.
60. The noblest pleasure is the enjoyment of knowledge. (Leonardo da Vinci)
We will always find at least one topic that we enjoy knowing.
61. The first task of education is to shake up life, but leave it free to develop. (Maria Montessori)
The forerunner of children’s autonomy, leaves us this phrase.
62. The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. (Carl Rogers)
Change is never an enemy.
63. True education consists not only in learning about a few facts related to science, history, literature or art, but in the development of character. (David O. McKay)
Learning about ourselves is necessary to improve.
64. He who loves reading has everything at his fingertips. (William Godwin)
Reading is the best way to discover new opportunities.
65. The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. (Abraham Lincoln)
In the classroom is where it all begins.
66. The only custom that children need to be taught is not to submit to any. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
They may be raised in custom, but they must be able to change their minds when they grow up.
67. Books are the quietest and most constant friends, the most accessible and wise counselors, and the most patient teachers. (Charles William Eliot)
Books are excellent company.
68. I go to school, but I never find out what I want to know. (Bill Watterson)
School leaves a void that we must fill on our own.
69. Change is the result of any true learning. (Leo Buscaglia)
A good change is one that comes from preparation.
70. It is still humiliating for a person of ingenuity, to know that there is no fool who cannot teach him something. (Jean-Baptiste Say)
Anyone can learn and teach something.
71. Marriage can wait, education cannot. (Khaled Hosseini)
Education is paramount over traditions.
72. The best teacher is not the one who knows the most, but the one who is able to reduce his knowledge and experience to the simplicity of the obvious and wonderful. (HL Mencken)
Teachers must have their own way of imparting knowledge.
73. The great objective of education is not knowledge, but action. (Herbert Spencer)
It is useless to accumulate knowledge if it is not used in life.
74. A child with a lack of education is a lost child. (John F. Kennedy)
Education must be cultivated from childhood.
75. It is necessary to pay more attention to those who teach, not to those who give orders. (San Agustin)
An important phrase to reflect on.
76. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. (Sydney J Harris)
One of the goals of education is to get an opportunity.
77. The illiterate of the future will not be the people who cannot read. They will be the person who does not know how to learn. (Alvin Toffler)
The real kind of illiteracy.
78. From the talker I have learned to keep quiet; from the intolerant, to being indulgent, and from the malevolent, to treating others with kindness. And curious as it may seem, I don’t feel any gratitude towards those teachers. (Khalil Gibran)
From bad people we learn not to follow their example.
79. Learning is not achieved by chance, it must be sought with ardor and diligence. (Abigail Adams)
We must all seek our own learning.
80. Being self-taught is the only type of education that exists. (Issac Asimov)
This medium helps us discover who we are.
To the classic question “what do you do?” I always answer “basically I am a psychologist”. In fact, my academic training has revolved around the psychology of development, education and community, a field of study influenced my volunteer activities, as well as my first work experiences in personal services.