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Being an educator is not always the easiest job, but knowing you have made an impact on students’ lives can be so rewarding. Through all of the good times and bad, you continue to persevere and provide education to students of all backgrounds and abilities. We collected 50 of the best quotes about education to celebrate the best parts of teaching, learning, and the impact they have on the world.

Our Favorite Quotes About Education

“education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.” — malcolm x.

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” — Elin Nordegren

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm Forbes

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” — Abigail Adams

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela

“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.

“A person who won’t read has no advantage over a person who can’t read.” — Mark Twain

“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” — Unknown

“Education is the key to unlock a golden door of freedom.” — George Washington Carver

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” — John F. Kennedy

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” — George Santayana

“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle

“Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life.” — W.E.B Du Bois

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” — Horace Mann

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” — Steve Irwin

Quotes about education: “I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” —Steve Irwin

“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” — Sidney Hook

“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” — William Bennett

“Education is the key which will unlock the door of opportunity for you.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” — Maya Angelou

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” — Bill Nye

“The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Helen Keller

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle

“To teach is to learn twice.” — Joseph Joubert

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” — Confucius

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” — Mark Van Doren

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” — Margaret Mead

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” — Henry Ford

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Brooks Adams

“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buehner

“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” — Eliphas Levi

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai

“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.” — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” — Isaac Asimov

“Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.” — Ezra Pound

Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.- Quotes About Education

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” — Marian Wright Edelman

“It is only the ignorant who despise education.” — Publilius Syrus

“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” — William Morris

I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.- Quotes About Education

“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.” — Nancy Astor

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.” — Norman Cousins

“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.” — John Ruskin

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.- Quotes About Education

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.” — Horace Mann

“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.” — Frederick William Robertson

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.- Quotes About Education

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.” — Edward Everett

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Whether you’re a teacher or a student, a new school year is an exciting time. These education quotes will get you ready to enjoy teaching and learning anytime.

School pushes us out of our comfort zone, teaches us to dream big, and encourages us to achieve our potential.

In celebration of all the amazing things that education, we’ve put together a list of the best quotes about school, learning, and teaching.

So whether you’re a parent, student, or teacher – we’ve got you covered as you get ready for another year of school.

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Top 10 Education Quotes

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates

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

Will Durant quote "Education is the transmission of civilization"

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Oprah Winfrey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration . Bill Frist

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Herbert Spencer

Georg Hegel quote "Education is the art of making man ethical"

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett

Quotes about Education

Whether you’re at the beginning of a new year or semester of learning, or aren’t quite sure where your knowledge will take you next – look no further than these inspiring education quotes.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Ernest Dimnet

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes

Only the educated are free. Epictetus

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

Wendell Willkie quote "Education is the mother of leadership"

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. Plato

It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling. Murray N. Rothbard

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

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin Fisher

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. Shakuntala Devi

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking

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

Even the genius asks questions. Tupac Shakur

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

Anatole France quote "Nine-tenths of education is encouragement"

Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do. Bruce Lee

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. Lewis

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein

Development is a series of rebirths. Maria Montessori

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. Buddha

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. Mark Twain

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. W.B. Yeats

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. Sir Claus Moser

Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle

They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. Muriel Spark

Mark Twain education quote "Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned"

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

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris

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

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George Washington Carver

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller

Learning Quotes

Live as if you will die tomorrow. Learn as if you will live forever. Mahatma Gandhi

The learning process continues until the day you die. Kirk Douglas

Leonardo da Vinci quote "Learning never exhausts the mind"

The doer alone learneth. Friedrich Nietzsche

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first. Ray Congdon

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. Wendell Berry

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. Voltaire

Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go! Dr. Seuss

Alexander Pope education quote "A little learning is a dangerous thing"

Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work. William Crawford

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb

The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. B.B. King

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

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid. G.K. Chesterton

Henry Adams education quote "They know enough who know how to learn"

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Henry Ford

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. Thomas Szasz

Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. Harry S. Truman

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. Claude Bernard

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. Vernon Howard

Plato education quote "All learning has an emotional base"

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

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world. Eric Hoffer

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. Claude Bernard

Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman

"You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking"

I’m still learning. Michelangelo

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. Michel Legrand

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle

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School Quotes

A new desk, a handful of freshly sharpened pencils, the first page of a new workbook… there are no days quite like school days!

From Kindergarten to college, celebrate all stages of education and their role in shaping our futures with these great school quotes.

In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. Tom Bodett

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school. Terrance Deal

We don’t stop going to school when we graduate . Carol Burnett

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work. Richard Livingstone

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child"

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. Harold Howe

School made us ‘literate’ but did not teach us to read for pleasure. Ambeth Ocampo

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E.M. Forster

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. Robert T. Kiosaki

The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. Dr. Seuss

"The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching"

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. Chuck Grassley

Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials is like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing. Madeline Hunter

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. Agnes Repplierg

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. Og Mandino

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

School is a place that provides education, and education is the key to life. Unknown

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. John Taylor Gatto

I’m not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. Emma Watson

Edward de Bono quote "I think school is a place where thinking should be taught"

School prepares you for the real world… which also bites. Jim Benton

There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. Ray Bradbury

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book for everything. Robert Frost

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. George Evans

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.Margaret Atwood

Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. Roy T. Bennett

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant

Victor Hugo school quote "He who opens a school door closes a prison"

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. Stanley Kubrick

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year. Henry Ford

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else. James E. Faust

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun. Josephine Baker

Education begins at home . You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him. Geoffrey Holder

Teaching Quotes

Teachers have the amazing power of being able to inspire young minds.

Celebrate those who help children and young people achieve their potential with these quotes about teachers and teaching.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward

"Children must be taught how to think not what to think"

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

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage . A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential. John C. Maxwell

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world. Malala Yousafzai

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson. John Henrik Clarke

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Cicero

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C.S. Lewis

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. Ruth Beechick

Richard Bach teaching quote "You teach best what you most need to learn"

Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. John Holt

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. Frank Herbert

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor

Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Francis Keppel

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge. Brad Sherman

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. Joseph Campbell

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. Solomon Ortiz

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers

Thomas Lodge quote "Men, in teaching others learn themselves"

We hope you’re feeling inspired and excited to go back to school!

Enjoy these education quotes and quotes on teaching and learning anytime you need some extra schooling for your mind. Let us know your favorite below!

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This is the best quote for education The quote which i love in this list is “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

35 Inspiring Quotes about Education

Sometimes it can be hard to remember why education and learning is important. I have vivid memories from college where I wanted to drop out and how I was so done with school. When that happened, I thought about my why, my purpose. Below are 35 spectacular quotes about education and learning to remind yourself how important it is to learn! These are great for a motivational push when you want to give up on that paper or for a custom teacher’s gift or card.

As a teacher, my favorite quotes about education from this list are numbers 9, 17, 21, and 30. I’ve seen lots of teacher shirts and things that have those quotes on them!

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
“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.
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” – Plato
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.” – Christine Gregoire
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” – Aristotle
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Education is the foundation of all progress.” – John F. Kennedy
“Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan

“Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.” – Brad Henry
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer
“Education is the foundation of opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
“Education is the vaccine for violence.” – Edward James Olmos
“The educated man is the man who can stimulate his own mind.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
“Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein
“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
“Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.” – Nora Ephron
“Education is the foundation of a strong and informed society.” – Elizabeth Warren
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb
“Education is the engine of personal development.” – Peter Thiel
“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.” – Aristotle
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes Laertius
“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William S. Burroughs
“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” – Solomon Ortiz

Which quotes about education are your favorite from the list? Or do you have another that inspires you? Share in the comments below!

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Excellent quotes! My favorite one is “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein

I love all the quotes in this post. My favorites are 5 and 15. So much truth in them!

I love all these quotes about education. My favorite is “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” Education is life, I think it surmarises everything.

Love all of these, number 13 is my personal favorite I would say. Thanks so much for sharing so much inspiration.

This is an awesome collection of quotes. This is by far my favorite: “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

Education is the magic bullet that can take your life where you want it to go. It is the key to rising from poverty and bad circumstances.

Thank you for sharing these amazing quotes. Number 24 “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein – is really what education should be about.

I’m a former teacher. Love these quotes!

“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know,” by Aristotle is one of my favorite quotes! A mind that always wants to learn is the best mind.

such a great list of quotes

Loved this! Great list of quotes! 🙂

106 Inspirational Education Quotes for Students & Teachers

These inspiring educational quotes will show students, teachers and parents the power of learning. Wether you’re looking to motivate kids or young adults in the classroom, or other teachers and colleagues, this is the wisdom they need to thrive and be their very best version of themselves.

Also make sure to see these inspirational quotes for kids (if you’re looking to inspire and motivate the next generation).

Education Quotes

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” – Malala Yousafzai

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch

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“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley

“Education without application is just entertainment.” – Tim Sanders

“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” – Mark Twain

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“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin

“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” – Francis Bacon

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya

“A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” – Mark Twain

“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond

“School exams are memory tests, in the real world no one is going to stop you from referring to a book to solve a problem.” – Amit Kalantri

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking

“You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb

“The road to freedom –here and everywhere on earth-– begins in the classroom.” – Hubert Humphrey

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” – Doris Lessing

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” – Dorothy Parker

“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” – Mary McLeod Bethune

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C. S. Lewis

“Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.” – Sir Anthony Seldon

“Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.” – John Dewey

“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.” – Denis Waitley

“The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.” – Lindsay Kolowich

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein

“Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.” – Eric Fromm

“Education is the great engine to personal development.” – Nelson Mandela

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” – Elin Nordegren

“All of life is a constant education.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” – Brigham Young

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” – Auguste Rodin

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William Burroughs

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb

“You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.” – Julia Child

“Education should not be reading about the past rather it should be about addressing the present.” – Rajesh Walecha

“Take what you learn and make a difference with it.” – Tony Robbins

“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” – Horace Mann

“Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.” – Confucius

“Life is an open book test. Learning how to learn is your most valuable skill in the online world.” – Marc Cuban

“Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France

“Intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.” – Daniel Keyes

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant

“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” – George Evans

“We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” – Michelle Obama

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Andy McIntyre

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” – Mark Twain

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

“Education around entrepreneurship should start early, at secondary level, and be very robust by college level.” – Stephen A. Schwarzman

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein

“The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.” – John Dewey

“Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” – William Glasser

“They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it is in the home, school, or any place.” – Malala Yousafzai

“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.” – Victor Hugo

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” – Gloria Steinem

“School is the path, not the point.” – Will Richardson

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker

“Education is the transmission of civilization.” – Will Durant

“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later” – Dana Stewart Scott

“Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities.” – Nelson Mandela

“All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.” – David Hawkins

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” – Richard Feynman

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” – John Holt

“Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.” – Robin Williams

“Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats

“If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.” – Brad Sherman

“We all know that education, more than anything else, improves your chances of building better lives.” – Nelson Mandela

“I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.” – Ann Brashares

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer

“The learning process continues until the day you die.” – Kirk Douglas

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B.King

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso

“Education is everything- education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.” – Ciara

“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” – Epictetus

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.” – Gustave Flaubert

“No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.” – Nelson Mandela

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” – Martin Fisher

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” – William Arthur Ward

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

“All things good to know are difficult to learn.” – Greek proverb

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” – Bill Beattie

“To delight in literature is to desire to learn.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller

“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” – Thomas Carruthers

“The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.” – George Santayana

“Let’s recommit to work towards our common goal: a nation where all of us are winners, all of us have shelter, food, and education.” – Nelson Mandela

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand

“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.” – Nelson Mandela

“I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.” – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.” – Will Rogers

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi

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60+ Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Education

At times we all need something to get us through the day, as teachers that tends to happen when the coffee machine has broken down. Try these quotes in case of such an emergency!

We all need to energize ourselves from time to time, so take a moment to read these quotes from some of the worlds best minds, and then jump back into that classroom. We are teachers, that’s what we do.

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” Albert Einstein

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.“ Steve Irwin

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.“ Maimonides

„Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.“ Malcolm X

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.“ Albert Einstein

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.“ G.K. Chesterton

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.“ Buckminster Fuller

“The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.“ Leo Buscaglia

“The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.“ Jean Piaget

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.“ Victor Hugo

“I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.“ Andy Rooney

“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.“ Chinese proverb

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.“ B.B. King

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.“ John Dewey

“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

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.“ Anatole France

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

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.“ Will Durant

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” Zig Ziglar

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” Tom Bodett

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” Zig Ziglar

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry B Adams

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” Hebrew proverb

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” Alfred Mercier

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” Roger Lewin

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” Alexandra K. Trenfor

“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” Lady Bird Johnson

“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

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” Goethe

“Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” Plato

“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it.” Arnold Glasow

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” Sydney J. Harris

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain

“Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” John Keats

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” Michel Legrand

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited. Plutarch:

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. Bruce Lee

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring. Sidney J. Harris

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. Albert Einstein

The teacher’s task is to initiate the learning process and then get out of the way. John Warren

The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James

Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late. Max Forman

The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask which he finds it hard to answer. Alice Wellington Rollins

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. Haim Ginott

One of the beauties of teaching is that there is no limit to one’s growth as a teacher, just as there is no knowing beforehand how much your students can learn. Herbert Kohl

Education is much more than a matter of imparting the knowledge and skills by which narrow goals are achieved. It is also about opening the child’s eyes to the needs and rights of others. Dalai Lama

No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helped you. Althea Gibson

When the untapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds. Mary Hatwood Futrell

The work of a teacher — exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never twice the same — is at its heart an ethical enterprise. Teaching is the vocation of vocations. William Ayres

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. Helen Caldicott

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems — the answer for all the problems of the world — comes to a single word. That word is education. Lyndon B. Johnson

Teaching is the essential profession, the one that makes all professions possible. David Haselkorn

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? Cicero

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? Harriet Martineau

“Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” (Anonymous)

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50 Quotes About Education Every Student Should Read

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Why do people like quotes so much?

Well, the main reason why is that they are both educational and inspirational.

Here is the list of the most telling quotes about education which every student should read.

Some of them are definitely familiar while others may be totally new to you.

Quotes about education you’ve definitely heard before

The first citation is by Benjamin Franklin and it goes like this:

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

This quotation describes the necessity to acquire knowledge in the best way possible.

A lot of people like to cite it to highlight the importance of learning something new every day.

The more knowledge you have acquired, the more areas you can become an expert in, and the earlier you understand it, the faster you will realize why it is so vital to study hard when you are in college.

The second statement to mention is the following one:

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious”.

Albert Einstein said this phrase, but you probably know it all to well from your physics teacher.

Whenever you come across this quote, you remember how significant it is to stay curious about the things that surround us and about the world we live in.

This is what drives us to move forward and achieve our goals.

The next statement is one of the most inspirational quotes of all time, and it has a lot to do with teaching.

The author of the citation is William S. Burroughs and it goes like this:

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.”

The main task of a teacher at any school or university is to provide their student with a set of values.

Memorizing facts is easy.

Anyone can do it.

Learning is not merely about getting good grades and passing tests.

It is about the ability of a person to process what they have learned and to come up with their own conclusions.

Quotes you may be unfamiliar with

Perhaps, you have come across the following citation on your own or have discussed it as a part of your school curriculum but this statement by Thomas Jefferson is not quoted as often it it should be:

“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.”

In other words, getting education is the road to logic and reason that help us deal with ignorance or even aggression.

To develop as a society, we need to be educated. The final citation to mention is the one by Francis Bacon:

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

This quotation highlights the importance of traveling and seeing the world no matter how old you are.

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Here are 45 more great quotes on education. Enjoy!

“The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” Confucius.

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” Lloyd Alexander

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potentials. ” John Maxwell

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver.

“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Seuss

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” Anthony J.1 D’Angelo

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Aristotle

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” Albert Einstein.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ” Nelson Mandela

“Strive for Progress, Not perfection.” Unknown

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” Seuss

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” Marian Wright Edelman .

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” Kofi Annan.

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” Henry Ford.

“Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.” Ron Lewis

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” Will Durant.

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” Beverly Sills

“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” Jiddu Krishnamurti .

“Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.” P. J. Abdul Kalam.

“Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.” Sir Anthony Seldon.

“No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.” Brad Henry.

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” Robert Frost.

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” William S. Burroughs

“The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.” Lindsay Kolowich

“With an education you all have everything you need to rise above all of the noise and fulfil every last one of your dreams.” Michelle Obama.

“Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.” Shakuntala Devi

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” Jean Piaget.

“Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.” A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.” Charles B. Rangel.

“Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.” Jim Rohn.

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” George Lorimer.

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” Abraham Lincoln.

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” Rabindranath Tagore

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” Chanakya.

“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” Helen Keller

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X

“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” Mahatma Gandhi.

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison.

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius.

“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.” Benjamin Disraeli.

“Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.” Maria Montessori.

“Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.” William Glasser

“Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.” Ed Markey

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100 Education Quotes That Will Inspire You To Keep Growing

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .

Education is vital.

You without education:

More likely to become poor
More likely to have diseases
More likely to commit crimes

You with education:

More likely to be happy
More likely to make more money
More likely to live longer

So, what’s the key to a better future?

Inspired by this, I have compiled 100 of the best education quotes I could find.

To inspire you and make you realize the value of proper education.

You’ll discover quotes by Einstein, Budha, Lao Tzu, and more.

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon

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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. Bruce Lee

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A dull mind gets bored easily. A curious mind expands forever. Maxime Lagacé

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Play is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein ( This source says it’s probably not from Einstein)

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A generation of auto-didacts, educated by the Internet and leveraged by technology, will eventually starve the industrial-education system. Naval Ravikant

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A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller

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

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

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Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. Bob Talber

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Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson

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A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero

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The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice. James Clear

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The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller

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Only the autodidacts are free. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams

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The more you make it easy for your kids, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning. Maxime Lagacé

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. United Negro College Fund

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. Chinese proverb

The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt

Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge . Naval Ravikant

Podcasts are free. Twitter is free. Wikipedia is free. YouTube is free. We are living in a golden age of self-education. Brian Feroldi ( Source )

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. Naval Ravikant

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People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. Socrates

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

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming

Education begins the gentleman, but reading , good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke

Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. Jim Rohn

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. Bill Nye (upworthy.com)

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The learned man knows that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo

I am still learning. Michelangelo

Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Albert Einstein

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

You can never be overdressed or overeducated. Oscar Wilde

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. James Dewar

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

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Augustine of Hippo

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

My education was interrupted only by my schooling. Winston Churchill

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes

As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France

Responsibility educates. Wendell Phillips

A sign of good education: students don’t feel entitled. Maxime Lagacé

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Andy McIntyre

The world exists for the education of each man. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even a fool learns something once it hits him. Homer

Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus

Success is a poor teacher. Robert Kiyosaki

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes

There is no education like adversity. Benjamin Disraeli

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese proverb

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou

Inspirational Education Quotes

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If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. Nora Roberts

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino

When anything can be learned online, the barrier to education is simply motivation, curiosity, and persistence. Anthony Pompliano ( Source )

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness . It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant (Naval referred to the Internet and social medias like Twitter and LinkedIn)

Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it. Walter Isaacson

Every person with a smartphone and a pair of headphones has access to the kind of education that was once reserved for the sons of aristocracy. The Stoic Emperor

Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be. Rita Pierson

They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. Aristotle

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual. Jean Piaget

Funny And Surprising Education Sayings

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You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day. Jay Mohr

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones

Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for. Jerry Seinfeld

Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime. Red Skelton

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn’t stop until you get to school. Milton Berle 😂

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. Mark Twain

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. Mark Twain

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. Robin Williams

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education Proverbs For Value-Packed Wisdom

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When the student is ready, the master appears. Buddhist proverb

If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly. Buddhist proverb

Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen proverb

A single conversation with a wise man is better than 10 years of study. Chinese proverb

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese proverb

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. Chinese proverb

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Chinese proverb

Wise men may not be learned; learned men may not be wise. Chinese proverb

A stumble may prevent a fall. English proverb

Despise school and remain a fool. German proverb

All things good to know are difficult to learn. Greek proverb

An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught. Japanese proverb

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. Japanese proverb

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. Latin proverb

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin H. Fischer

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. Eartha Kitt

Key Takeaways

Want a great education? Never get bored asking questions.
Want a great way to learn? Play! Don’t be so serious.
Want to go far in life? Be an autodidact. You can learn anything on the Internet.
Remember: answers are good, but questions are better.
To know is good. To know what’s worth knowing is better.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

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

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“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

Maya Angelou

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”

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

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

Dorothy Parker

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

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“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

Lee Iacocca

“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”

Chinese Proverb

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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What Is Education? Insights from the World's Greatest Minds

Forty thought-provoking quotes about education..

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As we seek to refine and reform today’s system of education , we would do well to ask, “What is education?” Our answers may provide insights that get to the heart of what matters for 21st century children and adults alike.

It is important to step back from divisive debates on grades, standardized testing, and teacher evaluation—and really look at the meaning of education. So I decided to do just that—to research the answer to this straightforward, yet complex question.

Looking for wisdom from some of the greatest philosophers, poets, educators, historians, theologians, politicians, and world leaders, I found answers that should not only exist in our history books, but also remain at the core of current education dialogue.

In my work as a developmental psychologist, I constantly struggle to balance the goals of formal education with the goals of raising healthy, happy children who grow to become contributing members of families and society. Along with academic skills, the educational journey from kindergarten through college is a time when young people develop many interconnected abilities.

As you read through the following quotes, you’ll discover common threads that unite the intellectual, social, emotional, and physical aspects of education. For me, good education facilitates the development of an internal compass that guides us through life.

Which quotes resonate most with you? What images of education come to your mind? How can we best integrate the wisdom of the ages to address today’s most pressing education challenges?

If you are a middle or high school teacher, I invite you to have your students write an essay entitled, “What is Education?” After reviewing the famous quotes below and the images they evoke, ask students to develop their very own quote that answers this question. With their unique quote highlighted at the top of their essay, ask them to write about what helps or hinders them from getting the kind of education they seek. I’d love to publish some student quotes, essays, and images in future articles, so please contact me if students are willing to share!

What Is Education? Answers from 5th Century BC to the 21 st Century

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. — Jean Piaget, 1896-1980, Swiss developmental psychologist, philosopher
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory , or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. — Anatole France, 1844-1924, French poet, novelist
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. — Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013, South African President, philanthropist
The object of education is to teach us to love beauty. — Plato, 424-348 BC, philosopher mathematician
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., 1929-1968, pastor, activist, humanitarian
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, physicist
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Greek philosopher, scientist
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life. — Brigham Young, 1801-1877, religious leader
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer – into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor, 1879-1964, American-born English politician and socialite
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. — William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Irish poet
Education is freedom . — Paulo Freire, 1921-1997, Brazilian educator, philosopher
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. — John Dewey, 1859-1952, philosopher, psychologist, education reformer
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. — George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, scientist, botanist, educator
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer, poet
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. — Sydney J. Harris, 1917-1986, journalist
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. — Malcolm Forbes, 1919-1990, publisher, politician
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. — Emma Goldman, 1869 – 1940, political activist, writer
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. — John W. Gardner, 1912-2002, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer, theologian, poet, philosopher
Education is the movement from darkness to light. — Allan Bloom, 1930-1992, philosopher, classicist, and academician
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. -- Daniel J. Boorstin, 1914-2004, historian, professor, attorney
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. — William S. Burroughs, 1914-1997, novelist, essayist, painter
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -- Robert M. Hutchins, 1899-1977, educational philosopher
Education is all a matter of building bridges. — Ralph Ellison, 1914-1994, novelist, literary critic, scholar
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. — Joseph Addison, 1672-1719, English essayist, poet, playwright, politician
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. — Malcolm X, 1925-1965, minister and human rights activist
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. — Solomon Ortiz, 1937-, former U.S. Representative-TX
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. — Plutarch, 46-120AD, Greek historian, biographer, essayist
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. — Bob Beauprez, 1948-, former member of U.S. House of Representatives-CO
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home. — William Temple, 1881-1944, English bishop, teacher
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. — John Ruskin, 1819-1900, English writer, art critic, philanthropist
Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete. — Joyce Meyer, 1943-, Christian author and speaker
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. — B.F. Skinner , 1904-1990, psychologist, behaviorist, social philosopher
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others. — Tyron Edwards, 1809-1894, theologian
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation. — John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35 th President of the United States
Education is like a lantern which lights your way in a dark alley. — Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 1918-2004, President of the United Arab Emirates for 33 years
When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts. — Dalai Lama, spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence . — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, poet
The secret in education lies in respecting the student. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, essayist, lecturer, and poet
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance, but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. — Maya Angelou, 1928-, author, poet

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Inspirational Quotes for English Teachers

Krystal DeVille

October 13, 2023

Inspirational Quotes for English Teachers

English teachers work tirelessly to inspire our young people and shape the future of the world through them.

At times this load can get heavy, and you may need some inspiration of your own, so I have compiled a list of some of the best quotes for English teachers to get you through your day.

After each quote, I give my thoughts on what it means to me and some key takeaways.

Table of Contents

English Quotes on Fostering a Love of Learning

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” ― Joseph Addison

Unlike the great sculptors of the past, teachers do not dedicate their entire lives to the refinement of a single block of marble. Rather, a teacher dedicates themselves to helping each student that walks through their doors in the discovery of their own masterpiece and waits to see the finished product with bated breath.

“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” ― William Butler Yeats

A great education does not result in the ability to recite dates and statistics perfectly but rather in the desire to learn more.

Great English teachers instill a love of learning and discovery in their students, knowing that the young people they teach today will grow into the pioneers of tomorrow.

“You can teach a student a lesson for a day, but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” ― Clay P. Bedford

The largest impact made on me by my former teachers is not the substance of the lessons they taught, but the love of learning I have to this day.

A teacher that teaches you the lesson plan gives you knowledge; a teacher that teaches you a love of learning gives you the world.

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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

Teachers have a special way of making students want to learn more, more, and more. Teachers are not there to force the child to memorize the answer but rather to have them on the edge of their seats ready for the next problem.

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” ― Margaret Mead

The best lesson a teacher can give is not on anything that will ever be on a test. The best lesson is learned over many years, and it shows you how to think and discover for yourself.

Quotes About Teaching

“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” ― Colleen Wilcox

Teaching is not a profession for those who are easily discouraged; every day will present a new challenge, but seeing the fruits of your labor actualized is worth the effort.

Those who succeed are those that are constantly looking forward, anxious to see what the next day will bring.

The feeling of teaching is one that can’t be described. To see the look in a student’s eye when they finally understand a concept that they were having difficulty grasping is priceless.

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” ― Mark Van Doren

Teaching is not only about providing answers to the millions of questions that are thrown your way each day. The true testament of a teacher’s abilities lies in their ability to assist their students in forging their own path and seeing what wonders their students will discover.

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” ― Alexandra K. Trenfor

Good teachers are able to give answers to problems and show the solution, but truly great teachers teach you how to find those answers yourself. Knowing how to do that opens a new realm in which anything is possible.

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“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” ― William A. Ward

It only takes a spark to light a forest fire, and it only takes the right question to change the world. Great teachers leave kindling everywhere they go, and show their students how to light the match.

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” ― Albert Einstein

This is one of my favorite quotes, especially for English teachers. Not everyone has the ability to spark curiosity, yet teachers seem to have this skill ingrained within them. They show their students that the search for knowledge is not a grueling trek, but rather a joyous adventure.

Funny Teacher Quotes

“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.” ― Dan Rather

Great teachers will often shake your entire world, putting cracks in the foundations of everything you believe in until your world comes crashing down.

What you don’t see in the moment are the supplies they are providing you, and the helping hand waiting to assist you in rebuilding to greater heights.

“If you can stand in front of groups of restless students every day and come through it unscathed, you can do anything!” ― Kirsty Murray

Let’s not mince words – teachers are superheroes!

Teaching kids is difficult; I don’t know many people who could regularly stand in front of high school kids and keep them engaged for eight hours a day, while also having them leave with more knowledge than they came with. They really can do anything!

A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.” ― Darwin D. Martin

While I’m sure teachers occasionally (often) feel like one of those live wires has lit their hair on fire, they continue to persevere and shape the lives of our students. Teaching is hard work, and they all deserve praise for their efforts.

“A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day’s teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.” ― Gilbert Highet

As difficult as it may be at times, don’t forget that at the end of the day, learning and the pursuit of knowledge should be fun!

Take a moment to enjoy the little things – you deserve it!

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“Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” ― Joyce Meyer

While it may take more than a bit of chalk the sentiment remains – teachers do change lives. There are few people who can not think of a teacher that made them question their current path and then helped them create a new one.

Motivational Teacher Quotes

“Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.” ― Helen Caldicott

Teachers are often overworked and underpaid, and with that can come the question: Am I really making a difference?

The answer to this echoes in the cures researchers discover for diseases, in the leaders negotiating for peace, and in the footprints tread on the moon. None of this would be possible without the tireless work of our educators.

“The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.” ― Henry Ford

As a teacher, you are not only teaching your students what is written in their textbook, you are teaching them how to process the world around them. While many people may not use the Pythagorean theorem after high school, the lessons in learning to process the world will stay with them forever.

”A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” ― Henry B. Adams

The number of lives a teacher touches is endless due to the ripples of their influence spreading to unseen shores. Even if only one life is changed directly, that life will impact many more, and the ripples will echo on forever.

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” ― Confucius

Education is the first step toward progress. Teachers are on the frontline driving the world forward through the inspiration they impart to their students, and bringing hope to the future.

“Every child deserves a champion—an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.” ― Rita Pierson

Teachers are in the position to personally touch the lives of more young people than anyone else. With this honor comes an immense responsibility to be a bastion of safety and support for the students who pass through your doors.

Quotes from Literary Heroes on Teaching

“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” ― John Steinbeck

The great artists of the ages are given praise and accolades around the world, while many of the greatest teachers are only known by a few.

Yet while the artists will leave an impact on the minds of people, the teachers will change the world itself.

“A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.” ― Ruth Beechick

Teachers are those who love learning so much that it overflows to others. This love of learning is then instilled within their students through example.

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” ― Robert Frost

Teachers are those who awaken something in their students. Every student has a different passion within them waiting to be discovered, and a great teacher will help their students to find that passion be it art, medicine, or something is not yet known to the world.

“The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.” ― Alice Wellington Rollins

Teaching students is one thing, but inspiring them is another. A great teacher will inspire students to the degree that their thirst for knowledge surpasses their own understanding.

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.” ― Carl Jung

Teachers are responsible not only for the minds of their students but for their hearts.

They are able to nurture the souls of those in their care and shape them for the rest of their lives. Think of the teacher that made you want to teach, and strive to be the same for someone else.

Inspirational Teacher Quotes

“A good teacher is like a candle—it consumes itself to light the way for others.” ― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

We all owe a great debt to the teachers that have shaped us, the teachers that put their blood, sweat, and tears into making us who we are today. It takes a special type of person to give their all year after year in the service of shaping the youth of the future and through them, the world.

“Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” ― John C. Maxwell

Being an amazing teacher is not only about ensuring the students learn; it’s also about ensuring they feel comfortable making mistakes while learning. Students will open up and engage in ways never seen when they feel supported, and in the process, a new world will open to them.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ― Nelson Mandela

So many of the world’s problems are due to a lack of understanding – understanding of the world around us, understanding of others’ viewpoints, and understanding of who you are as a person.

Education is the first step toward a greater understanding which then snowballs into active change. Teachers are the ones packing the snow that starts in this journey.

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.” ― Malala Yousafzai

No action, person, or moment is too small to leave a lasting impact. Each day contains thousands of moments in which you are impacting your students’ lives and through them, changing the world.

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” ― Plato

Education is the cornerstone from which a person is built. Teachers labor over each child’s cornerstone before sending them into the world with the best foundation they can create.

Teaching is one of the most rewarding jobs there is, but with the struggles that come with being a teacher it can be easy to lose sight of the impact you are having. I hope these quotes brought a smile to your face, and helped to remind you why you started teaching in the first place.

You may sometimes feel like you’re doing too much or not enough, but remember ―

”The fact that you worry about being a good teacher, means that you already are one.” ― Jodi Picoult

Wrapping Up Inspirational Quotes for English Teachers

English teachers and teachers, in general, have the power to not only convey knowledge but also inspire and lead their students. Quotes can be a great source of motivation for teachers on the days when they feel drained or unmotivated.

By reflecting on inspirational quotes, teachers can gain insight, stay encouraged and pass these feelings on to their students. As a result, teachers and students alike can stay inspired and motivated throughout the year.

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We have positive quotations to motivate you to move forward, quotes to offer you calm and wise words to help you manage a huge life shift or transition, all laid out for you right here. So go ahead and delve right into these finest life quotes. You could find your new Monday motivation or self-care mantra.

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
“Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth
“In order to write about life first, you must live it.” – Ernest Hemingway
“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.” – William Osler
“Life comes from the earth, and life returns to the earth.” – Zhuangzi
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” – Rick Riordan
“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.” – O. Henry
“Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.” – Naval Ravikant
“Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you.” – Michelle Obama
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Michael Cunningham
“Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless.” – Maxime Legacé
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

“Be around people who make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, laugh, and remind you what’s important in life.” – Germany Kent
“The most beautiful smile belongs to those who make others smile” – Mahnoor Tahir
“The best sleeping pill is a clear conscience.” – Dada J. P. Vaswani
“World without poetry is like a lover without a rose” – Shiny
“Remember that we will not be here forever. Good thoughts, good ideas, and good deeds have a chance to live for a very long time.”- Debasish Mridha
“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” – William Hazlitt
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer
“For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi
“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” – Vernon Howard
“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.” – T.S. Eliot
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'” – Sydney J. Harris
“We pass through this world but once.” – Stephen Jay Gould
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen Covey
“Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.” – Søren Kierkegaard
“Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy.” – Sai Baba
“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Benett
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T. Benett
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” – Rose Kennedy
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather make a man a more clever devil.” – C.S. Lewis
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” – Mark Twain
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
“Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and diligence.” – Abigail Adams
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
“Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” – Maimonides
“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” – Ernest Dimnet
“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.” – Denis Waitley
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford
“Every artist was at first an amateur.” – Ralph W. Emerson
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.” – Michelle Obama
“If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you, and it will be extremely clear what the next step is.” – Gabrielle Bernstein
“Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on.” – Lady Gaga
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” – Margaret Mitchell
“I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” – Louise Hay
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” – Les Brown
“A secret to life: Know that none of this matters, and yet… live as if every single moment does.” – Kamal Ravikant
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
“Things are beautiful if you love them.” – Jean Anouilh
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
“If you say you can or you can’t you are right either way.” – Henry Ford
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Havelock Ellis
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” – Donna Roberts
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de La Fontaine
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” – Anna Taylor
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“How beautiful it is to find someone who asks for nothing but your company.” – Brigitte Nicole
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” – Muhammad Ali
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anais Nin
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” – Tennessee Williams

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston
“A year from now, you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
“Just one look at you and I know it’s gonna be a lovely day.” – Bill Withers
“I’m walking on sunshine, and don’t it feel good!” – Katrina and the Waves
“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning, and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” – Yoko Ono
“Waking up early, connecting with nature, and having my quiet time are priorities to me, and they are non-negotiable.” – Darnette May
Thought-provoking messages like this aren’t just for bad days, either! These life mantras are ideal for providing motivation in any circumstance’ whether you are preparing to make a significant transition or know someone who is.
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15 Wonderful Thoughts on Education by Swami Vivekananda

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Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.
All power is within you; You can do anything and everything.
Arise, Awake and Stop not till the goal is reached.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
You are the creator of your own destiny.
There is only one purpose in the whole of life education.
We may read books, hear lectures, and talk miles, but experience is the one teacher, the one eye-opener. It is best as it is. We learn, through smiles and tears we learn.
The present system of education is all wrong. The mind is crammed with facts before it knows how to think.
Educate our people, so that they may be able to solve their own problems. Until that is done, all these ideal reforms will remain ideals only
It is man-making education all round that we want.
Books are infinite in number and time is short; therefore the secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
The very essence of education is concentration of mind.
Complete continence gives great intellectual and spiritual power.
No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion which rouses the internal teacher to work to understand things.
What is education? Is it book learning? No. Is it diverse knowledge? Not even that. The training by which the current and expression of will are brought under control and become fruitful is called education.

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“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” — Elin Nordegren

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm Forbes

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” — Abigail Adams

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela

“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.

“A person who won’t read has no advantage over a person who can’t read.” — Mark Twain

“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” — Unknown

“Education is the key to unlock a golden door of freedom.” — George Washington Carver

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” — John F. Kennedy

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” — George Santayana

“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle

“Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life.” — W.E.B Du Bois

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” — Horace Mann

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” — Steve Irwin

“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” — Sidney Hook

“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” — William Bennett

“Education is the key which will unlock the door of opportunity for you.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” — Maya Angelou

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” — Bill Nye

“The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Helen Keller

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle

“To teach is to learn twice.” — Joseph Joubert

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” — Confucius

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” — Mark Van Doren

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” — Margaret Mead

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” — Henry Ford

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Brooks Adams

“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buehner

“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” — Eliphas Levi

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai

“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.” — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” — Isaac Asimov

“Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.” — Ezra Pound

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” — Marian Wright Edelman

“It is only the ignorant who despise education.” — Publilius Syrus

“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” — William Morris

“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.” — Nancy Astor

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.” — Norman Cousins

“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.” — John Ruskin

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.” — Horace Mann

“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.” — Frederick William Robertson

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.” — Edward Everett

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