Education is the cornerstone of any prosperous society. It is one of the most important things that you can do for yourself and your family. Education is also a great way to stay ahead of the curve and make sure that you never fall behind.
Schools are designed to teach children and young adults essential knowledge and skills to prepare them for their future. It can change your life for the better and get you on a path of self-fulfillment, personal growth, and fulfillment.
Read out the 79 education quotes that will motivate you to keep growing
1. “The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.” ~
2. “It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.” ~ Cormac McCarthy
3. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” ~ Malcolm X
4. “When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.” ~ John Taylor Gatto
5. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”— Carl Rogers
6. “Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.” ~ Mark Twain
7. “Education is the vaccine of violence.” ~ Edward James Olmos
8. “Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.” ~ Plato
9. “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
10. “A good education is a foundation for a better future.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
11. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” ~ Malcolm Forbes
12. “Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ” ― Jane Austen (Read more Jane Austen quotes.)
13. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ~ William Butler Yeats
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15. “Education is the transmission of civilization.” ~ Will Durant
16. “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” ~ Chinese Proverb
17. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ~ Jim Rohn
18. “With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” ~ Malala Yousafzai
19. “Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.”
20. “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” ~ William S. Burroughs
21. “When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world”- Shai Reshef
22. “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” ~ Kofi Annan
23. “Only the educated are free.” ~ Epictetus
24. “Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” ~ Peter Brougham
25. “I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.” ~ Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
26. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
27. “Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.” ~ George Weah
28. “By seeking and blundering we learn.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29. “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” ~ John F. Kennedy
30. “What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.” ~ Chuck Grassley
31. “A child without education is like a bird without wings.” ~ Tibetan Proverb
32. “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” ~ B.B. King
33. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~ Nelson Mandela
34. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” ~ Chanakya
35. “The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” ~ Jack Nicholson
36. “Education is the art of making man ethical.” ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
37. “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” ~ G.K. Chesterton
38. “Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. – Shakuntala Devi
39. “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” ~ George Evans
40. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” ~ Confucius
41. “Education should light a fire within us to improve us and help our world.” ~ Sarah Josepf
42. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
43. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” ~ Albert Einstein
44. “Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.” ~ George Washington Carver
45. “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” ~ Michel Legrand
46. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” ~ Albert Einstein
47. “Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” ~ Mark Twain
48. “Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.” ~ Ernest Dimnet
49. “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
50. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” ~ B. B. King
51. “The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth” ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
52. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” ~ Herbert Spencer
53. “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
54. “We learn from failure, not from success!”― Bram Stoker
55. “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.” ~ Mortimer Adler
56. “Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” ~ Elin Nordegren
57. “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
58. “Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. ” ― Pete Seeger
59. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” ~ Henry Ford
60. “You cannot open a book without learning something.” ~ Confucius
61. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” ~ Dorothy Parker
62. “I don’t want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.” ~ Malala Yousafzai
63. “Education is the mother of leadership.” ~ Wendell Willkie
64. “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” ~ Brigham Young
65. “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” ~ Walter Cronkite
66. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” ~ Hellen Keller
67. “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
68. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” ~ Will Durant
69. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ~ Socrates
70. “Your library is your paradise.” ~ Desiderius Erasmus
71. “Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.” ~ Eric Fromm
72. “The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
73. “A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.” ~ Anne Bishop
74. “Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.” ~ Thomas Moore
75. “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.” ~ Martin Luther King
76. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” ~ John Dewey
77. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
78. “Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.” ~ Frank Herbert
79. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” ~ George Washington Carver
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