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.
Some of the best education quotes are listed below.
- “An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.” – Anatole France
- “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
- “Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.” – Claus Moser
- “Education in the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” – Edward Everett
- “Education is freedom.” – Paulo Freire
- “Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.” – Robert Lee Frost
- “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
- “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
- “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
- “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
- “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver
- “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom
- “Education’s purpose is to replace and empty mind with an open one.” – Malcom Forbes
- “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” – Maimonides
- “Good questions outrank easy answers.” – Paul Samuelson
- “He that loves reading has everything within his reach.” – William Godwin
- “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo
- “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” – Albert Einstein
- “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
- “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan
- “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” – Chinese proverb
- “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” – John F. Kennedy
- “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer
- “The mere imparting of information is not education.” – Carter G. Woodson
- “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” – Thomas Paine
- “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
- “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C.S. Lewis
- “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris
- “There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” – Edmund Burke
- “What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.” – Joseph Addison
- “Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” – Erich Fromm
- “You are always a student, never a master. You have keep moving forward.” – Conrad Hall
- “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde
- “A child without education is like a bird without wings.” – Tibetan Proverb
- “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” – Thomas Carruthers
- “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” – Helen Keller
- “All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” – Martin Fisher
- “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
- “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” – Albert Einstein
- “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “Be curious, not judgmental.” – Walt Whitman
- “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” – Ernest Dimnet
- “Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.” – George Carlin
- “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
- “Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle…If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.” – George Weah
- “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 a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant
- “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 pot but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
- “Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” – Elin Nordegren
- “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” – G.K. Chesterton
- “Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.” – Dr. John G. Hibben
- “Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.” – George Washington Carver
- “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” – Socrates
- “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
- “Education is the vaccine of violence.” – Edward James Olmos
- “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein
- “Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” – Peter Brougham
- “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” – William Haley
- “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
- “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
- “Even the genius asks questions.” – Tupac Shakur
- “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” – Bill Nye
- “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
- “I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” – Steve Irwin
- “I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” – Jim Rohn
- “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” – Abraham Maslow
- “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking
- “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.” – Agnes Repplierg
- “It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” – Albert Einstein
- “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” – John Hersey
- “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
- “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.” – Edward De Bono
- “Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” – Mark Twain
- “Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France
- “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” – Auguste Rodin
- “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The ability to read, write, and analyze; the confidence to stand up and demand justice and equality; the qualifications and connections to get your foot in the door and take your seat at the table – all of that starts with education.” – Michelle Obama
- “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William S. Burroughs
- “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think–rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” – Bill Beattie
- “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
- “The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” – Malala Yousafzai
- “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 first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.” – Mark Twain
- “The human mind is our fundamental resource.” – John F. Kennedy
- “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” – Voltaire
- “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” – Carl Rogers
- “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi
- “The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” – Jean Piaget
- “The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris
- “To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” – Muriel Spark
- “Too often, we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” – Robert Lewin
- “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” – Walter Cronkite
- “Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
- “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
