Education Quotations
People have been saying things about learning, teaching and education for hundreds, and even thousands of years. Read some of these ideas here. If you want to contribute your own ideas about education, visit the discussion forum.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
W. B. Yeats (Irish Poet, 1865 - 1939)
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King (American Blues Guitarist, b. 1925)
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus (Greek Philospher, c. 55 - c. 135)
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France (French Author, 1844 - 1924)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei (Italian Astronomer, 1564 - 1642)
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (Indian Educator, 1895 - 1986)
One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never.
Alexander Dumas (French Author, 1802 - 1870)
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle (Anciemt Greek Philosopher, 384-322 BC)
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.
Helen Hayes (American Actress, 1900 - 1993)
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy (US President, 1917 - 1963)
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think.
James Beattie (Scottish Academic and Writer, 1735 - 1803)
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X (American black nationalist leader, 1925 - 1965)
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter (British Author, 1866 - 1943)
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams (American Historian and Novelist, 1838 - 1918)
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori (Italian Educator, 1870 - 1952)
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela (Former President of South Africa, b.1918)
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Albert Einstein (German-born Physicist, 1879-1955)
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance
Sir Claus Moser (British Statistician, b. 1922)