Famous Education Quotes

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow"

"It is always in season for old men to learn"

"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre"

Gail Godwin, Novelist

"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Education is all a matter of building bridges"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

"Every educated person is a future enemy"

Martin Bormann, Soldier

"An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style"

Alan K. Simpson, Politician

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards"

Mark Twain, Author

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence"

Robert Frost, Poet

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living"

Will Rogers, Actor

"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few"

Will Rogers, Actor

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"

Will Durant, Historian

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

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"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, Novelist

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army"

Edward Everett, Statesman

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated"

Horace Mann, Educator

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn"

Alice Miller, Psychologist