Great Educational Quotes

• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Graduation

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

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• Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Leadership, Education, Teaching

  Attributed; no source found

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• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

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• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Education

  "Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.

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• Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

  William Haley

  Girl, Education, Teacher

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• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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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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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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  Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  Abigail Adams

  Inspirational, Education, Perseverance

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

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

  James Dewar

  Funny, Education, Attitude

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Education, Wisdom, School

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• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Character, School

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

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• The highest result of education is tolerance.

  Helen Keller

  Forgiveness, Education, Teacher

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Education, Reading, Teaching

  English Social History ch. 18 (1942)

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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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• Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

  Aristotle

  Success, Education, Teaching

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

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• The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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