Here’s the list of 100+ education quotes to inspire you. You’ll find inspiration about importance of teaching and learning. You’ll also find encouraging quotes about library, passion, character and self-education.
Education Quotes
1. I am still learning. – Michelangelo
2. Education is soul crafting. – Cornel West
3. To teach is to learn twice. – Joseph Joubert
4. When one teaches, two learn. – Robert Half
5. Learning is not a spectator sport. – Anonymous
6. I am not a teacher, but an awakener. – Robert Frost
7. Marriage can wait, education cannot. – Khaled Hosseini
8. Learning without thought is labor lost. – Confucius
9. A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. – Sir Francis Bacon
10. Nine tenths of education is encouragement. – Anatole France
11. Teaching is a strategic act of engagement. – James Bellanca
12. What we learn with pleasure we never forget. – Alfred Mercier
13. Character is a wish for a perfect education. – Novalis
14. Education is the best provision for old age. – Aristotle
15. The highest result of education is tolerance. – Helen Keller
16. Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. – John Cotton Dana
17. You can never be overdressed or overeducated. – Oscar Wilde
18. A very little key will open a very heavy door. – Charles Dickens
19. To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. – Henri Frederic Amiel
20. Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn. – Greek Proverb
21. Teachers teach someone something, in that order. – Samuel M. Natale
22. Education cost money, but then so does ignorance. – Claus Moser
23. Children have more need of models than of critics. – Carolyn Coats
24. Correction does much, but encouragement does more. – Goethe
25. Education is the ability to meet life’s situations. – Dr. John G. Hibben
26. Every person of learning is finally his own teacher. – Thomas Paine
27. The only way to be totally free is through education. – Jose Marti
28. He that loves reading has everything within his reach. – William Godwin
29. A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. – George Santayana
30. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. – Herbert Spencer
31. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. – Margaret Mead
32. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. – Albert Einstein
33. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle
34. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. – Will Durant
35. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein
36. Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. – George Washington Carver
37. The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. – Linus Pauling
38. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain
39. Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual. – J.P Richter
40. It’s not what is poured into a student, but what is planted. – L. Conway
41. Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. – Victor Hugo
42. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. – Socrates
43. A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. – Henry Ward Beecher
44. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. – Thomas Carruthers
45. Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere. – Chinese Proverb
46. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. – Sydney J. Harris
47. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. – John Dewey
48. Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. – Albert Einstein
49. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – Edward Everett
50. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass
51. The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. – Plutarch
52. What century will your students enter on the first day of school?
53. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. – Dorothy Parker
54. A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. – Helen Keller
55. The final evaluation should not be the hardest part of the course. – Ken Whytock
56. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – William Butler Yeats
57. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. – Epictetus
58. Every student can learn. Just not on the same day or in the same way. – George Evans
59. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. – Aristotle
60. Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. – Bob Talbert
61. The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes
62. Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life. – Frederick W.Robertson
63. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. – Amos Bronson Alcott
64. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
65. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. – Henry B Adams
66. It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. – Claude Bernard
67. Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. – Isaac Asimov
68. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi
69. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky
70. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela
71. The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. – B.B. King
72. Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating. – C. B. Neblette
73. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. – E.M. Forster
74. Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. – Japanese Proverb
75. I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. – St. Augustine
76. The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. – Gloria Steinem
77. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. – Mahatma Gandhi
78. Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. – Leonardo da Vinci
79. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. – Albert Einstein
80. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself. – Galileo
81. Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. – Roger Lewin
82. If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. – Ignacio Estrada
83. The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. – Carl Rogers
84. Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. – Leonardo da Vinci
85. Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends. – Benjamin Disraeli
86. Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. – Chinese proverb
87. Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself. – Robin Cook
88. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. – G. K. Chesterton
89. The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change. – Carl Rogers
90. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. – Edith Ann
91. The best teachers are those that show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. – Alexandra K. Trenfor
92. The best and most important part of every man’s education is that which he gives himself. – Edward Gibbon
93. I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. – Andy Rooney
94. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle
95. I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. – Albert Einstein
96. Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. – Beatrix Potter
97. Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes, and that times change. – Gina Shapira
98. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. – Robert Maynard Hutchins
99. Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. – Walter Cronkite
100. Some parents do not send their children to school because they don’t know its importance at all. – Malala Yousafzai
Bonus Education Quotes
101. One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. – Sophocles
102. What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. – George Bernard Shaw
103. No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education. – John Carolus
104. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. – Robert Frost
105. All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent. – John F. Kennedy
106. Education is not a form of entertainment, but a means of empowering people to take control of their lives. – Unknown
107. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education. – John W. Gardner