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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
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The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
- Michel Legrand
Topic: Education, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
- Richard Shaull
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.
- Chris Hedges
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. "Leadership qualities" are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.
- John Holt
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
- Tara Westover
Educated
Topic: Education, Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
The only things you learn are the things you tame
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
- Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Topic: Education, Funny
NOT YET RATED ▼
... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
- Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
Topic: Education, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.
THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF
OFF.
- Megan McCafferty
Second Helpings
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.
- Simone de Beauvoir
Le deuxième sexe, Tome II
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
- H.L. Menchken
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
- Booker T. Washington
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.
- Jim Benton
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?
- E.R. Braithwaite
To Sir, With Love
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.
- Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.
- Christine de Pizan
The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sustain joy by anchoring yourself with gratitude.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
- B.F. Skinner
Walden Two
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
- Allan Bloom
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
- Michel Legrand
Topic: Education, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
- Richard Shaull
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.
- Chris Hedges
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. "Leadership qualities" are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.
- John Holt
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
- Tara Westover
Educated
Topic: Education, Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
The only things you learn are the things you tame
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
- Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Topic: Education, Funny
NOT YET RATED ▼
... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
- Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
Topic: Education, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.
THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF
OFF.
- Megan McCafferty
Second Helpings
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.
- Simone de Beauvoir
Le deuxième sexe, Tome II
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
- H.L. Menchken
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
- Booker T. Washington
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.
- Jim Benton
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?
- E.R. Braithwaite
To Sir, With Love
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.
- Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.
- Christine de Pizan
The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sustain joy by anchoring yourself with gratitude.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
- B.F. Skinner
Walden Two
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
- Allan Bloom
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
- Michel Legrand
Topic: Education, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
- Richard Shaull
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.
- Chris Hedges
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. "Leadership qualities" are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.
- John Holt
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
- Tara Westover
Educated
Topic: Education, Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
The only things you learn are the things you tame
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
- Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Topic: Education, Funny
NOT YET RATED ▼
... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
- Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
Topic: Education, Inspirational
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.
THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF
OFF.
- Megan McCafferty
Second Helpings
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.
- Simone de Beauvoir
Le deuxième sexe, Tome II
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
- H.L. Menchken
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
- Booker T. Washington
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.
- Jim Benton
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?
- E.R. Braithwaite
To Sir, With Love
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.
- Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.
- Christine de Pizan
The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sustain joy by anchoring yourself with gratitude.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
- B.F. Skinner
Walden Two
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
- Allan Bloom
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
Topic: Education
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