Education Quotes

• Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  Malcolm X

  Life, Inspiring, Future

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• 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.

  Teacher, Teaching, Character

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Learning, Thinking, Mind

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• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Encouraging, Money, 4th Of July

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth

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• When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Mind, Youth

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Learning, Community, Leaving

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Powerful Weapons, Educational

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Opportunity, Skills

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

  Kofi Annan

  Knowledge, Information Is Power, Progress Of Society

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Appreciation

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Business, Honesty

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• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Lying, Youth

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• Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

  Alexander Pope

  Birthday, Graduation, Learning

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Cobham" l. 101 (1734)

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• We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Money, Believe, Investment

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• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

  Plato

  Children, Teaching, Learning

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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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• Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

  Kofi Annan

  Teaching, Democracies Have, Democracy

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Jun 03, 2016

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• Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

  Scott Hayden

  Inspirational, Teacher, Two

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• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Teacher, Atheist, Book

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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