Importance Of Education Quotes

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  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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• 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 not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

  Plato

  Graduation, Education, Appreciation

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.12, University Press of America

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• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Encouraging, Education, Money

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

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

  George Washington Carver

  Education, Teacher, Freedom

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.62, University of Missouri Press

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• Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

  "Moving Forward".

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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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  Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

  James A. Garfield

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

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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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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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• That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, May, Literacy

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• Education is the movement from darkness to light.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspirational, Education, Light

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

  Edward Everett

  Education, Freedom, War

  "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

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• The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Teacher, Philosophy

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• Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

  Confucius

  Education, Homeschooling, Certain Knowledge

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Change, Graduation, Education

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". "TIME" Magazine, October 8, 1965.

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• Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

  Sidney Sugarman

  Education, Teacher, Children

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