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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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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
Topic: Education
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Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.
- David Eddings
Belgarath the Sorcerer
Topic: Education
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Education is what they equip you with; just in case your dream doesn't workout.
Topic: Education, Success
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By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse resume to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready--for nothing in particular.
- Peter Thiel
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Topic: Education
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Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Topic: Education
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History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.
- Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune
Topic: Education
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Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it’s really learning. The questions, What’s being taught? What’s the goal? How do the lectures and assignments accomplish the goal? become ominous. The removal of grades exposes a huge and frightening vacuum.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Topic: Education
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Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.
- Linda Perlstein
Topic: Education
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We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.
- Jonathan Sacks
Topic: Education
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The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
- Casanova
Topic: Education
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I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.
- Gillian Flynn
The Grownup
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to
become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your
parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can
do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite
hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've
been to college.
Topic: Education
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Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.
- Richard Diaz
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large...
- Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson: Public and Private Papers
Topic: Education
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Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important.
- Rafe Esquith
There Are No Shortcuts
Topic: Education
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No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.
- George Seldes
Topic: Education
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A clever girl is the most wonderful thing in all Creation you know: you must never forget that. People expect men to be clever. They expect girls to be stupid or at least silly, which very few girls really are, but most girls oblige them by acting like it. So you just go away and be as clever as ever you can: put their noses out of joint for them. It's the best thing you could possibly do, you and all the clever girls in this city and the world.
- Madeleine St. John
The Women in Black
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
- Russell Baker
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
- Albert Schweitzer
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully.
- Louise Boyd Cadwell
Bringing Reggio Emilia Home: An Innovative Approach to Early Childhood Education
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.
- Abhijit Naskar
The Education Decree
Topic: Education, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.
- David Eddings
Belgarath the Sorcerer
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education is what they equip you with; just in case your dream doesn't workout.
Topic: Education, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse resume to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready--for nothing in particular.
- Peter Thiel
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.
- Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it’s really learning. The questions, What’s being taught? What’s the goal? How do the lectures and assignments accomplish the goal? become ominous. The removal of grades exposes a huge and frightening vacuum.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.
- Linda Perlstein
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.
- Jonathan Sacks
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
- Casanova
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.
- Gillian Flynn
The Grownup
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to
become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your
parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can
do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite
hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've
been to college.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.
- Richard Diaz
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large...
- Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson: Public and Private Papers
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.
- Flannery O'Connor
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
- Abraham Lincoln
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.
- John Holt
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important.
- Rafe Esquith
There Are No Shortcuts
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.
- George Seldes
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
A clever girl is the most wonderful thing in all Creation you know: you must never forget that. People expect men to be clever. They expect girls to be stupid or at least silly, which very few girls really are, but most girls oblige them by acting like it. So you just go away and be as clever as ever you can: put their noses out of joint for them. It's the best thing you could possibly do, you and all the clever girls in this city and the world.
- Madeleine St. John
The Women in Black
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
- Russell Baker
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
- Albert Schweitzer
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully.
- Louise Boyd Cadwell
Bringing Reggio Emilia Home: An Innovative Approach to Early Childhood Education
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.
- Abhijit Naskar
The Education Decree
Topic: Education, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.
- David Eddings
Belgarath the Sorcerer
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education is what they equip you with; just in case your dream doesn't workout.
Topic: Education, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse resume to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready--for nothing in particular.
- Peter Thiel
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.
- Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it’s really learning. The questions, What’s being taught? What’s the goal? How do the lectures and assignments accomplish the goal? become ominous. The removal of grades exposes a huge and frightening vacuum.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.
- Linda Perlstein
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.
- Jonathan Sacks
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
- Casanova
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.
- Gillian Flynn
The Grownup
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to
become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your
parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can
do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite
hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've
been to college.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.
- Richard Diaz
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large...
- Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson: Public and Private Papers
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.
- Flannery O'Connor
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
- Abraham Lincoln
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.
- John Holt
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important.
- Rafe Esquith
There Are No Shortcuts
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.
- George Seldes
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
A clever girl is the most wonderful thing in all Creation you know: you must never forget that. People expect men to be clever. They expect girls to be stupid or at least silly, which very few girls really are, but most girls oblige them by acting like it. So you just go away and be as clever as ever you can: put their noses out of joint for them. It's the best thing you could possibly do, you and all the clever girls in this city and the world.
- Madeleine St. John
The Women in Black
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
- Russell Baker
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
- Albert Schweitzer
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully.
- Louise Boyd Cadwell
Bringing Reggio Emilia Home: An Innovative Approach to Early Childhood Education
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.
- Abhijit Naskar
The Education Decree
Topic: Education, Motivational
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