Education Quotes: Inspiring Words on Learning and Teaching

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

Lillian Smith, Novelist

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run"

Mark Twain, Author

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out"

Ellen Ochoa, Astronaut

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Freedom can occur only through education"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"The giving of love is an education in itself"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Very likely education does not make very much difference"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"

Will Durant, Historian

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete"

Epictetus, Philosopher