Best quotes on education

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Education is very instrumental to one’s growth and development, and often considered the key to success and bright future. Education goes beyond the walls of a classroom and book knowledge, to encompass the facts of life.

Education is not to mug up, but just to understand how to create the world around us, sustain it for future generations and develop relations for existence. The role of education is meant for developing something new rather than relying on the old innovations. One should be able to think, apply it in the world and to know the value of life. There is no end for education, in each and every stage of human life we learn something.

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” – George Santayana
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.” – Roy H. Williams
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Brooks Adams
“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” – Dr. David M. Burns
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” – Maya Angelou
“Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.” – Mickey Hart
“As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I’m the least authoritarian professor you’ll ever meet.” – Niall Ferguson
“Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I’ve ever done.” – Katey Sagal
“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” – Japanese proverb
“But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.” – Kathy Ireland
“By crawling, a child learns to stand.” – Hausa
“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin
“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” – Ernest Dimnet
“Children just need the time, the space, and the permission to be kids.” – Angela Hanscom
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” – Harold Hulbert
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” – Chinese proverb
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum
“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
“Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.” – Sir Anthony Seldon
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” – Marian Wright Edelman
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – WB Yeats
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
“Education… is painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning, by praise, but above all – by example.” – John Ruskin
“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.” – Thomas Szasz
“Everybody’s a teacher if you listen.” – Doris Roberts
“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.” – Minna Antrim
“Experience is the teacher of all things.” – Julius Caesar
“Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.” – Euripides
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” – C.S. Lewis
“Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.” – Steve Harvey
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” – Gail Goldwin
“I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.” – Ann Brashares
“I believe that a parent’s role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.” – David Soul
“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein
“I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.” – Deborah Norville
“I’m not sayin’ I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will.” – Tupac Shakur
“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.” – Confucius
“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” – John Dewey
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein
“If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.” – Lady Gaga
“Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou
“Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” – Jim Henson
“Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and diligence.” – Abigail Adams
“Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” – John Hersey
“Love is a better teacher than duty.” – Albert Einstein
“My parents encouraged thought. You’ll get through life better if you learn how to think.” – Holly Near
“Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.” – Rose Kennedy
“Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.” – A. Bronson Alcott
“Our ability to achieve success depends on the strength of our wings gained through knowledge and experience. The greater our knowledge and experience, the higher we can fly.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.” – Glenn Beck
“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.” – William Hazlitt
“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Zig Ziglar
“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” – Og Mandino
“Teachers are those who help us in resolving problems which, without them, we wouldn’t have.” – Unknown
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese proverb
“That best academy, a mother’s knee.” – James Russell Lowell
“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
“The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” – Confucius
“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.” – John Ruskin
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” – John F. Kennedy
“The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’” – Maria Montessori
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward
“The more certain kids are that someone’s got their back, the more confident and autonomous they can be.” – Melinda Wenner Moyer
“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
“The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.” – Lindsay Kolowich
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” – Khalil Gibran
“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.” – Doug Larson
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.” – Amos Bronson Alcott
“The years teach much which the days never know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“There is no single way to educate.” – Michael Gurian
“This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!” – Swami Sivananda
“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” – Roger Lewin
“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” – Lloyd Alexander
“What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.” – Wendell Phillips
“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier
“When the student is ready, the master appears.” – Buddhist proverb
“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” – Francis Bacon
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” – Dr. Seuss
“You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.” – H.G. Wells
“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
“Your best teacher is your last mistake.” – Ralph Nader
“Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.” – Nora Ephron