Being an educator is not always the easiest job, but knowing you have made an impact on students’ lives can be so rewarding. Through all of the good times and bad, you continue to persevere and provide education to students of all backgrounds and abilities. We collected 50 of the best quotes about education to celebrate the best parts of teaching, learning, and the impact they have on the world.
Our Favorite Quotes About Education
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” —Malcolm X
“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” —Elin Nordegren
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” —Malcolm Forbes
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” —Sydney J. Harris
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” —Abigail Adams
“You learn something new every day if you pay attention.” —Ray LeBlond
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” —Nelson Mandela
“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 Jr.
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over a person who can’t read.” —Mark Twain
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” —William Butler Yeats
“Education is the key to unlock a golden door of freedom.” —George Washington Carver
“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” —Conrad Hall
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” —Herbert Spencer
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” —John F. Kennedy
“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” —George Santayana
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” —Aristotle
“A good education is a foundation for a better future.” —Elizabeth Warren
“Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life.” —W.E.B Du Bois
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” —Horace Mann
“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” —Steve Irwin
“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” —Sidney Hook
“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” —William Bennett
“To be successful in life, what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.” —Munshi Premchand
“We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.” —Gordon B. Hinckley
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn … and change.” —Carl Rogers
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” —Maya Angelou
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” —Bill Nye
“The highest result of education is tolerance.” —Helen Keller
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” —Aristotle
“To teach is to learn twice.” —Joseph Joubert
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” —Plutarch
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” —Confucius
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” —Mark Van Doren
“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” —Japanese proverb
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” —Margaret Mead
“People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.” —Bill Vaughan
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” —Leonardo da Vinci
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” —Henry Ford
“One must have strategies to execute dreams.” —Azim Premji
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” —Henry Brooks Adams
“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.” —Carol Buchner
“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” —Eliphas Levi
“By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.” —Latin proverb
“Everything is a learning process: Any time you fall over, it’s just teaching you to stand up the next time.” —Joel Edgerton
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” —Oscar Wilde
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” —Malala Yousafzai
“Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.” —Claire Fagin
“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.” —Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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