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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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Life is complicated. If life was simple, wouldn’t that make us simpletons?
Topic: Education, Happiness
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But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process.

Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.
- Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Topic: Education
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Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to. And this takes reflection, brooding about what it is that you know. The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.
- Jerome S. Bruner
Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
Topic: Education
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Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.
- Floyd Dell
Topic: Education
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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
Topic: Education, Philosophical
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He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
- Malala Yousafzai
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Topic: Education
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Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.
- Christine de Pizan
The Book of the City of Ladies
Topic: Education
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Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
- Shannon Hale
Princess Academy
Topic: Education
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…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
- Norton Juster
Topic: Education
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The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
- Bruno Bettelheim
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Topic: Education
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Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.
- David McCullough
Topic: Education
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Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
- Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Topic: Education, Religion
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A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.
- Patricia Briggs
River Marked
Topic: Education
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We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water to survive and every human has a heart that bleeds, loves, and grieves.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Topic: Education, Religion
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The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.
- Sherry Thomas
The Burning Sky
Topic: Education, Success
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Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Think Great: Be Great!
Topic: Education, Hope, Success
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Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.
- Charlotte Mason
The Original Home Schooling Series by Charlotte Mason
Topic: Education
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In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile
- Isaac Asimov
Robot Visions
Topic: Education
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Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
- Daniel Keyes
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?
- Paul Lockhart
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into beautiful swans, there are rebellious kids and slow learners that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art. All of these responses come from the place where we want to make the child into the best adult possible, not in the ancient Greek sense of virtuous and wise, but in the sense of one who is an efficient part of the machinery of society. But on all these counts, soul is neglected.
- Thomas Moore
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is complicated. If life was simple, wouldn’t that make us simpletons?
Topic: Education, Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process.

Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.
- Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to. And this takes reflection, brooding about what it is that you know. The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.
- Jerome S. Bruner
Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.
- Floyd Dell
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
Topic: Education, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
- Malala Yousafzai
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.
- Christine de Pizan
The Book of the City of Ladies
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
- Shannon Hale
Princess Academy
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
- Norton Juster
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
- Bruno Bettelheim
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.
- David McCullough
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
- Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Topic: Education, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.
- Patricia Briggs
River Marked
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water to survive and every human has a heart that bleeds, loves, and grieves.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Topic: Education, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.
- Sherry Thomas
The Burning Sky
Topic: Education, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Think Great: Be Great!
Topic: Education, Hope, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.
- Charlotte Mason
The Original Home Schooling Series by Charlotte Mason
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile
- Isaac Asimov
Robot Visions
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
- Daniel Keyes
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?
- Paul Lockhart
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into beautiful swans, there are rebellious kids and slow learners that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art. All of these responses come from the place where we want to make the child into the best adult possible, not in the ancient Greek sense of virtuous and wise, but in the sense of one who is an efficient part of the machinery of society. But on all these counts, soul is neglected.
- Thomas Moore
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is complicated. If life was simple, wouldn’t that make us simpletons?
Topic: Education, Happiness
NOT YET RATED ▼
But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process.

Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.
- Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to. And this takes reflection, brooding about what it is that you know. The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.
- Jerome S. Bruner
Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.
- Floyd Dell
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
Topic: Education, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
- Malala Yousafzai
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.
- Christine de Pizan
The Book of the City of Ladies
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
- Shannon Hale
Princess Academy
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
- Norton Juster
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
- Bruno Bettelheim
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.
- David McCullough
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
- Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Topic: Education, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.
- Patricia Briggs
River Marked
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water to survive and every human has a heart that bleeds, loves, and grieves.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Topic: Education, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.
- Sherry Thomas
The Burning Sky
Topic: Education, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Think Great: Be Great!
Topic: Education, Hope, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.
- Charlotte Mason
The Original Home Schooling Series by Charlotte Mason
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile
- Isaac Asimov
Robot Visions
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
- Daniel Keyes
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?
- Paul Lockhart
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into beautiful swans, there are rebellious kids and slow learners that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art. All of these responses come from the place where we want to make the child into the best adult possible, not in the ancient Greek sense of virtuous and wise, but in the sense of one who is an efficient part of the machinery of society. But on all these counts, soul is neglected.
- Thomas Moore
Topic: Education
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