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
Serious injury will be done to the cause of higher education if ... there is not the largest freedom of expression - a freedom entirely unhampered by either theological or monetary considerations. The greatest single element necessary for the cultivation of the academic spirit is the feeling of security from interference ... Freedom of expression must be given the members of a university faculty even though it be abused, for ... the abuse of it is not so great an evil as the restriction of such liberty.
- William Rainey Harper
Unfortunately, some have used history curricula for the sole purpose of promoting national identity and patriotism, without any devotion to the proper study of history.
- David Miano
Why Ancient History Matters
To be properly educated, one must reject contemporary pedagogical enthusiasms.
- Brad Miner
Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
Peace is justice in foreign relations; equality is justice in society; passion is justice in marriage; wisdom is justice in education; restraint is justice in behavior.
- Brad Miner
Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
I couldn’t see all the privileges and rights I’ve had just because I had the chance to be born a white girl in a lovely, nice family in America.
- Maricla Pannocchia
Letters from Afghanistan
Your education should not be limited to yourself. Your education should benefit the last element of society.
- Vaibhav Edke
We didn't want our children to waste their time in the same empty rituals of education that we did: passing tests only to forget the subject matter when the grades were given; spending years with passing grades in foreign-language instruction yet being unable to have even a rudimentary conversation in the language outside of the classroom; struggling to learn advanced math skills that were seldom used outside of class; doing lab experiments that were more rote exercises than scientific inquiries. Time and youth cannot be regained, so perhaps, ultimately, the real crisis in education may be one of disillusionment among graduates rather than poor performance among current students.
-
John HoltTeach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home
School is one thing, education is another. The two don't always overlap. Whether you are in school or not, it is always your job to get yourself an education.
- Austin Kleon
Steal Like an Artist
You cannot "educate" people; education does not improve moral character and congenital intelligence. You can show them things, and if they find meaning in them, they'll adapt to their own lifestyle and purpose. It's like eating: you take in food, break it down, and it becomes part of you where you can use it. The rest goes into the carrot patch, and might feed something else.
- Brett Stevens
Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity
I ain’t got much education, but I sho’ know folks.
[Quoting Ida Mae Brandon Gladney]
- Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
To conceive of an education as a commodity (as if it were a polo pony or an Armani suit) is to construe the idea of democracy as the freedom of a market instead of a freedom of the mind. I can understand why the mistake is both easy and convenient to make, but unless we stop telling ourselves that America is best understood as the sum of its gross domestic product, we stand little chance of re-imagining our history or reengineering our schools.
- Lewis H. Lapham
Lapham's Quarterly: Ways of Learning
Change is hard for anyone at any age. Children in particular are still learning their
worlds and developing their identities in it. These challenging conversations
can lead to a positive experience or be a detrimental one for the youngsters in
your charge
- Angela Shanté
The Noisy Classroom
They might also ask us by what reasoning we have concluded that we can have it both ways, that in one breath we can say that those remote and lofty thinkers have not answered our questions as to the good, and, in another, we can boast that "we" have indeed become a "better" species, having virtuously given up such nasty habits as slavery and dueling and cannibalism.
The real measure of your education is the product of your sensibility to values and contextual wisdom after your degrees are kept at bay .
- Priyavrat Thareja
You'd have to look hard to find Oliver's name in a history book. But in that small mining camp in Fayette County, West Virginia, Oliver did something important: he changed on life, and that life changed many.
- Deborah Hopkinson
Carter Reads the Newspaper
The students come first... because they are the foundational basis of funding.
- Fröderick Frankensteen
System Failure: A First-Hand Account From The Trenches Of A Revolving Door School District
There is no knowing without knowledge.
I was particularly fascinated by the story of the circumstances that led to the development of tertiary education in China. It seems hard to imagine—but there was a time when institutionalized education, formal curricula and exams didn’t exist.
- Dipa Sanatani
The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
The less articulate person may have an awareness that 'something is not quite right', but will not be able to make that awareness concrete without having his or her consciousness 'raised' through the provision of finer and more sensitive (linguistic) concepts. (This is one of the ways in which the more educated exercise dominion over the lesser.)
- David Smail
Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
- John Locke
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
- Phil Collins
O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)
Serious injury will be done to the cause of higher education if ... there is not the largest freedom of expression - a freedom entirely unhampered by either theological or monetary considerations. The greatest single element necessary for the cultivation of the academic spirit is the feeling of security from interference ... Freedom of expression must be given the members of a university faculty even though it be abused, for ... the abuse of it is not so great an evil as the restriction of such liberty.
- William Rainey Harper
Unfortunately, some have used history curricula for the sole purpose of promoting national identity and patriotism, without any devotion to the proper study of history.
- David Miano
Why Ancient History Matters
To be properly educated, one must reject contemporary pedagogical enthusiasms.
- Brad Miner
Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
Peace is justice in foreign relations; equality is justice in society; passion is justice in marriage; wisdom is justice in education; restraint is justice in behavior.
- Brad Miner
Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
I couldn’t see all the privileges and rights I’ve had just because I had the chance to be born a white girl in a lovely, nice family in America.
- Maricla Pannocchia
Letters from Afghanistan
Your education should not be limited to yourself. Your education should benefit the last element of society.
- Vaibhav Edke
We didn't want our children to waste their time in the same empty rituals of education that we did: passing tests only to forget the subject matter when the grades were given; spending years with passing grades in foreign-language instruction yet being unable to have even a rudimentary conversation in the language outside of the classroom; struggling to learn advanced math skills that were seldom used outside of class; doing lab experiments that were more rote exercises than scientific inquiries. Time and youth cannot be regained, so perhaps, ultimately, the real crisis in education may be one of disillusionment among graduates rather than poor performance among current students.
-
John HoltTeach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home
School is one thing, education is another. The two don't always overlap. Whether you are in school or not, it is always your job to get yourself an education.
- Austin Kleon
Steal Like an Artist
You cannot "educate" people; education does not improve moral character and congenital intelligence. You can show them things, and if they find meaning in them, they'll adapt to their own lifestyle and purpose. It's like eating: you take in food, break it down, and it becomes part of you where you can use it. The rest goes into the carrot patch, and might feed something else.
- Brett Stevens
Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity
I ain’t got much education, but I sho’ know folks.
[Quoting Ida Mae Brandon Gladney]
- Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
To conceive of an education as a commodity (as if it were a polo pony or an Armani suit) is to construe the idea of democracy as the freedom of a market instead of a freedom of the mind. I can understand why the mistake is both easy and convenient to make, but unless we stop telling ourselves that America is best understood as the sum of its gross domestic product, we stand little chance of re-imagining our history or reengineering our schools.
- Lewis H. Lapham
Lapham's Quarterly: Ways of Learning
Change is hard for anyone at any age. Children in particular are still learning their
worlds and developing their identities in it. These challenging conversations
can lead to a positive experience or be a detrimental one for the youngsters in
your charge
- Angela Shanté
The Noisy Classroom
They might also ask us by what reasoning we have concluded that we can have it both ways, that in one breath we can say that those remote and lofty thinkers have not answered our questions as to the good, and, in another, we can boast that "we" have indeed become a "better" species, having virtuously given up such nasty habits as slavery and dueling and cannibalism.
The real measure of your education is the product of your sensibility to values and contextual wisdom after your degrees are kept at bay .
- Priyavrat Thareja
You'd have to look hard to find Oliver's name in a history book. But in that small mining camp in Fayette County, West Virginia, Oliver did something important: he changed on life, and that life changed many.
- Deborah Hopkinson
Carter Reads the Newspaper
The students come first... because they are the foundational basis of funding.
- Fröderick Frankensteen
System Failure: A First-Hand Account From The Trenches Of A Revolving Door School District
There is no knowing without knowledge.
I was particularly fascinated by the story of the circumstances that led to the development of tertiary education in China. It seems hard to imagine—but there was a time when institutionalized education, formal curricula and exams didn’t exist.
- Dipa Sanatani
The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
The less articulate person may have an awareness that 'something is not quite right', but will not be able to make that awareness concrete without having his or her consciousness 'raised' through the provision of finer and more sensitive (linguistic) concepts. (This is one of the ways in which the more educated exercise dominion over the lesser.)
- David Smail
Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
- John Locke
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
- Phil Collins
O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)
Serious injury will be done to the cause of higher education if ... there is not the largest freedom of expression - a freedom entirely unhampered by either theological or monetary considerations. The greatest single element necessary for the cultivation of the academic spirit is the feeling of security from interference ... Freedom of expression must be given the members of a university faculty even though it be abused, for ... the abuse of it is not so great an evil as the restriction of such liberty.
- William Rainey Harper
Unfortunately, some have used history curricula for the sole purpose of promoting national identity and patriotism, without any devotion to the proper study of history.
- David Miano
Why Ancient History Matters
To be properly educated, one must reject contemporary pedagogical enthusiasms.
- Brad Miner
Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
Peace is justice in foreign relations; equality is justice in society; passion is justice in marriage; wisdom is justice in education; restraint is justice in behavior.
- Brad Miner
Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
I couldn’t see all the privileges and rights I’ve had just because I had the chance to be born a white girl in a lovely, nice family in America.
- Maricla Pannocchia
Letters from Afghanistan
Your education should not be limited to yourself. Your education should benefit the last element of society.
- Vaibhav Edke
We didn't want our children to waste their time in the same empty rituals of education that we did: passing tests only to forget the subject matter when the grades were given; spending years with passing grades in foreign-language instruction yet being unable to have even a rudimentary conversation in the language outside of the classroom; struggling to learn advanced math skills that were seldom used outside of class; doing lab experiments that were more rote exercises than scientific inquiries. Time and youth cannot be regained, so perhaps, ultimately, the real crisis in education may be one of disillusionment among graduates rather than poor performance among current students.
-
John HoltTeach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home
School is one thing, education is another. The two don't always overlap. Whether you are in school or not, it is always your job to get yourself an education.
- Austin Kleon
Steal Like an Artist
You cannot "educate" people; education does not improve moral character and congenital intelligence. You can show them things, and if they find meaning in them, they'll adapt to their own lifestyle and purpose. It's like eating: you take in food, break it down, and it becomes part of you where you can use it. The rest goes into the carrot patch, and might feed something else.
- Brett Stevens
Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity
I ain’t got much education, but I sho’ know folks.
[Quoting Ida Mae Brandon Gladney]
- Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
To conceive of an education as a commodity (as if it were a polo pony or an Armani suit) is to construe the idea of democracy as the freedom of a market instead of a freedom of the mind. I can understand why the mistake is both easy and convenient to make, but unless we stop telling ourselves that America is best understood as the sum of its gross domestic product, we stand little chance of re-imagining our history or reengineering our schools.
- Lewis H. Lapham
Lapham's Quarterly: Ways of Learning
Change is hard for anyone at any age. Children in particular are still learning their
worlds and developing their identities in it. These challenging conversations
can lead to a positive experience or be a detrimental one for the youngsters in
your charge
- Angela Shanté
The Noisy Classroom
They might also ask us by what reasoning we have concluded that we can have it both ways, that in one breath we can say that those remote and lofty thinkers have not answered our questions as to the good, and, in another, we can boast that "we" have indeed become a "better" species, having virtuously given up such nasty habits as slavery and dueling and cannibalism.
The real measure of your education is the product of your sensibility to values and contextual wisdom after your degrees are kept at bay .
- Priyavrat Thareja
You'd have to look hard to find Oliver's name in a history book. But in that small mining camp in Fayette County, West Virginia, Oliver did something important: he changed on life, and that life changed many.
- Deborah Hopkinson
Carter Reads the Newspaper
The students come first... because they are the foundational basis of funding.
- Fröderick Frankensteen
System Failure: A First-Hand Account From The Trenches Of A Revolving Door School District
There is no knowing without knowledge.
I was particularly fascinated by the story of the circumstances that led to the development of tertiary education in China. It seems hard to imagine—but there was a time when institutionalized education, formal curricula and exams didn’t exist.
- Dipa Sanatani
The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
The less articulate person may have an awareness that 'something is not quite right', but will not be able to make that awareness concrete without having his or her consciousness 'raised' through the provision of finer and more sensitive (linguistic) concepts. (This is one of the ways in which the more educated exercise dominion over the lesser.)
- David Smail
Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
- John Locke
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
- Phil Collins
O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)
