QUOTES ABOUT EDUCATION
Education has the power to shape minds, open doors, and transform lives. The following quotes capture the essence of learning, offering wisdom and insight from thinkers, leaders, and visionaries throughout history. Whether you’re a student, teacher, or lifelong learner, these words inspire reflection on the true value of education in our lives. ◀ Back
Experience is the teacher of all things.
- Julius Caesar
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
- Julius Caesar
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Do not train a child to learn by force or 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.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.
- Noam Chomsky
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
- Sir Walter Scott
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
I don't want to believe. I want to know.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.
- Adelaide Hoodless
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."
(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)
-
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEarly and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
- Jacob Bronowski
The Ascent of Man
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
- Abigail Adams
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
- Jacques Barzun
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
- Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth
Experience is the teacher of all things.
- Julius Caesar
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
- Julius Caesar
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Do not train a child to learn by force or 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.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.
- Noam Chomsky
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
- Sir Walter Scott
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
I don't want to believe. I want to know.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.
- Adelaide Hoodless
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."
(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)
-
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEarly and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
- Jacob Bronowski
The Ascent of Man
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
- Abigail Adams
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
- Jacques Barzun
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
- Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth
Experience is the teacher of all things.
- Julius Caesar
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
- Julius Caesar
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Do not train a child to learn by force or 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.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.
- Noam Chomsky
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
- Sir Walter Scott
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
I don't want to believe. I want to know.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.
- Adelaide Hoodless
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."
(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)
-
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEarly and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
- Jacob Bronowski
The Ascent of Man
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
- Abigail Adams
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
- Jacques Barzun
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
- Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth
