Inspirational Educational Quotes - Page 3

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Isaac Asimov

Inspirational, Trust, Education

Isaac Asimov (1975). “Science Past, Science Future”, Doubleday Books

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Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

William Arthur Ward

Motivational, Teacher, Teaching

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

Nelson Mandela

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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The more you read, the more things you will know.

Dr. Seuss

Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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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

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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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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 only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Carl Rogers

Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

Graduation, Education, Teacher

New Scientist 21 May 1964

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

Confucius

Education, Teacher, Powerful Weapons

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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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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Robert M. Hutchins

Life, Education, Teacher

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

Sidney Sugarman

Education, Teacher, Children

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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education, Teacher, Philosophy

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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

Motivational, Education, Teacher

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 29, 2016

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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Motivational, Success, Education

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 04, 2016

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Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

George Carlin

Faith, Children, Learning

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No one can take it away from you.

B. B. King

Education, Teacher, Knowledge

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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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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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.

Abraham Lincoln

Education, Teacher, Teaching

"Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Lily Tomlin

Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Education, Teaching

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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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