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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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He was a drug dealer.” It hurts to say that. “And possibly a gang member.”

“Why was he a drug dealer? Why are so many people in our neighborhood drug dealers?”

I remember what Khalil said—he got tired of choosing between lights and food. “They need money,” I say. “And they don’t have a lot of other ways to get it."

"Right. Lack of opportunities," Daddy says. "Corporate America don't bring jobs to our communities, and they damn sure ain't quick to hire us. Then, shit, even if you do have a high school diploma, so many of the schools in our neighborhoods don't prepare us well enough.
- Angie Thomas
The Hate U Give
Topic: Education
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The ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It's that the world is full of non-proofs, and grown-ups need to know the difference. It's hard to settle for a non-proof once you've really familiarized yourself with the genuine article.
- Jordan Ellenberg
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and EverythingElse
Topic: Education
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You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.
- GaryLFrancione
Topic: Education
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He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.
- Colin Clark
My Week with Marilyn
Topic: Education
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Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.
- GaryLFrancione
Topic: Education
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The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.
- Donna Quesada
Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We have to start from the ground up and reconsider what education is. In my language, I'd like to see us educate the soul, and not just the mind. The result would be a person who could be in the world creatively, make good friendships, live in a place he loved, do work that is rewarding, and make a contribution to the community. People say that the word "educate" means to "draw out" a person's potential. But I like the "duc" - part in the middle of it. To be educated is to become a duke, a leader, a person of stature and color, a presence and a character.
- Thomas Moore
Topic: Education
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While it is positive for young black males and females to learn discipline and self-responsibility, those attitudes, values, and habits of being can be taught with pedagogical strategies that are liberatory, that do not rely on coercive control and punishment to reinforce positive behavior.
- bell hooks
Killing Rage: Ending Racism
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.
- Brian S. Wesbury
Topic: Education
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Kashmir issue was created out of fear, mistrust and animosity and it should be solved through courage, trust, and friendliness. It should be solved from the ground of development of brotherhood, education and prosperity and not from the ground of religion, terrorism or military actions. It just needs more character, more courage and more compassion.
- Amit Ray
Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
Topic: Education
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They say that an educated inmate will not reoffend. This is not because an education assures that this guy will get hired somewhere. It is because his view is larger and more educated, so that he can be rejected at ninety-three job interviews and still not give up. He's acquired resilience.
- Gregory Boyle
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Respect for all, reward for the worthy, reservation for none.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Unconditional love requires us to accept Billy for exactly who he is. He cannot be different at this present moment. He is perfectly normal based on his history.
- Heather T. Forbes
Help for Billy
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Great achievement requires personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Topic: Education, Hope, Success
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Do not be afraid ask questions.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness.
- Bryant McGill
Voice of Reason
Topic: Education
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the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
- C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.
- Charles Eisenstein
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Topic: Education, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real. As they become "producers " they fall away from exploration and start fishing for the right answers with little thought. They believe they must always be right, so they quickly forget mistakes and how these mistakes were made. They believe that the only good response from the teacher is "yes," and that a "no" is defeat.
- John Holt
How Children Fail
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I follow the course marked out by my principles and, what is more, enjoy a deep and noble pleasure in following it. You deeply despise the human race, at least our part of it; you think it not only fallen but incapable of ever rising again... For my part, as I feel neither the right nor the wish to entertain such opinions of my species and my country, I think it is not necessary to despair of them. In my opinion, human societies, like individuals, amount to something only in liberty...And God forbid that my mind should ever be crossed by the thought that it is necessary to despair of success... You will allow me to have less confidence in your teaching than in the goodness and justice of God.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.
- Jodi Thomas
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!
- Jean Webster
Daddy-Long-Legs
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent explanations; monuments to themselves, in other words. In my view all teachers should be required to stop teaching at age thirty-two and not allowed to resume until they're sixty-five, so that they can live their lives, not teach them away - live lives full of ambiguity and transience and regret and wonder, be asked to explain nothing in public until very near the end when they can't do anything else.
Explaining is where we all get into trouble.
- Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
He was a drug dealer.” It hurts to say that. “And possibly a gang member.”

“Why was he a drug dealer? Why are so many people in our neighborhood drug dealers?”

I remember what Khalil said—he got tired of choosing between lights and food. “They need money,” I say. “And they don’t have a lot of other ways to get it."

"Right. Lack of opportunities," Daddy says. "Corporate America don't bring jobs to our communities, and they damn sure ain't quick to hire us. Then, shit, even if you do have a high school diploma, so many of the schools in our neighborhoods don't prepare us well enough.
- Angie Thomas
The Hate U Give
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It's that the world is full of non-proofs, and grown-ups need to know the difference. It's hard to settle for a non-proof once you've really familiarized yourself with the genuine article.
- Jordan Ellenberg
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and EverythingElse
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.
- GaryLFrancione
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.
- Colin Clark
My Week with Marilyn
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.
- GaryLFrancione
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.
- Donna Quesada
Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We have to start from the ground up and reconsider what education is. In my language, I'd like to see us educate the soul, and not just the mind. The result would be a person who could be in the world creatively, make good friendships, live in a place he loved, do work that is rewarding, and make a contribution to the community. People say that the word "educate" means to "draw out" a person's potential. But I like the "duc" - part in the middle of it. To be educated is to become a duke, a leader, a person of stature and color, a presence and a character.
- Thomas Moore
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
While it is positive for young black males and females to learn discipline and self-responsibility, those attitudes, values, and habits of being can be taught with pedagogical strategies that are liberatory, that do not rely on coercive control and punishment to reinforce positive behavior.
- bell hooks
Killing Rage: Ending Racism
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.
- Brian S. Wesbury
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Kashmir issue was created out of fear, mistrust and animosity and it should be solved through courage, trust, and friendliness. It should be solved from the ground of development of brotherhood, education and prosperity and not from the ground of religion, terrorism or military actions. It just needs more character, more courage and more compassion.
- Amit Ray
Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
They say that an educated inmate will not reoffend. This is not because an education assures that this guy will get hired somewhere. It is because his view is larger and more educated, so that he can be rejected at ninety-three job interviews and still not give up. He's acquired resilience.
- Gregory Boyle
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Respect for all, reward for the worthy, reservation for none.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Unconditional love requires us to accept Billy for exactly who he is. He cannot be different at this present moment. He is perfectly normal based on his history.
- Heather T. Forbes
Help for Billy
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Great achievement requires personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Topic: Education, Hope, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
Do not be afraid ask questions.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness.
- Bryant McGill
Voice of Reason
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
- C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.
- Charles Eisenstein
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Topic: Education, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real. As they become "producers " they fall away from exploration and start fishing for the right answers with little thought. They believe they must always be right, so they quickly forget mistakes and how these mistakes were made. They believe that the only good response from the teacher is "yes," and that a "no" is defeat.
- John Holt
How Children Fail
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I follow the course marked out by my principles and, what is more, enjoy a deep and noble pleasure in following it. You deeply despise the human race, at least our part of it; you think it not only fallen but incapable of ever rising again... For my part, as I feel neither the right nor the wish to entertain such opinions of my species and my country, I think it is not necessary to despair of them. In my opinion, human societies, like individuals, amount to something only in liberty...And God forbid that my mind should ever be crossed by the thought that it is necessary to despair of success... You will allow me to have less confidence in your teaching than in the goodness and justice of God.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.
- Jodi Thomas
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!
- Jean Webster
Daddy-Long-Legs
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent explanations; monuments to themselves, in other words. In my view all teachers should be required to stop teaching at age thirty-two and not allowed to resume until they're sixty-five, so that they can live their lives, not teach them away - live lives full of ambiguity and transience and regret and wonder, be asked to explain nothing in public until very near the end when they can't do anything else.
Explaining is where we all get into trouble.
- Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
He was a drug dealer.” It hurts to say that. “And possibly a gang member.”

“Why was he a drug dealer? Why are so many people in our neighborhood drug dealers?”

I remember what Khalil said—he got tired of choosing between lights and food. “They need money,” I say. “And they don’t have a lot of other ways to get it."

"Right. Lack of opportunities," Daddy says. "Corporate America don't bring jobs to our communities, and they damn sure ain't quick to hire us. Then, shit, even if you do have a high school diploma, so many of the schools in our neighborhoods don't prepare us well enough.
- Angie Thomas
The Hate U Give
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It's that the world is full of non-proofs, and grown-ups need to know the difference. It's hard to settle for a non-proof once you've really familiarized yourself with the genuine article.
- Jordan Ellenberg
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and EverythingElse
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.
- GaryLFrancione
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.
- Colin Clark
My Week with Marilyn
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.
- GaryLFrancione
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.
- Donna Quesada
Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We have to start from the ground up and reconsider what education is. In my language, I'd like to see us educate the soul, and not just the mind. The result would be a person who could be in the world creatively, make good friendships, live in a place he loved, do work that is rewarding, and make a contribution to the community. People say that the word "educate" means to "draw out" a person's potential. But I like the "duc" - part in the middle of it. To be educated is to become a duke, a leader, a person of stature and color, a presence and a character.
- Thomas Moore
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
While it is positive for young black males and females to learn discipline and self-responsibility, those attitudes, values, and habits of being can be taught with pedagogical strategies that are liberatory, that do not rely on coercive control and punishment to reinforce positive behavior.
- bell hooks
Killing Rage: Ending Racism
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.
- Brian S. Wesbury
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Kashmir issue was created out of fear, mistrust and animosity and it should be solved through courage, trust, and friendliness. It should be solved from the ground of development of brotherhood, education and prosperity and not from the ground of religion, terrorism or military actions. It just needs more character, more courage and more compassion.
- Amit Ray
Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
They say that an educated inmate will not reoffend. This is not because an education assures that this guy will get hired somewhere. It is because his view is larger and more educated, so that he can be rejected at ninety-three job interviews and still not give up. He's acquired resilience.
- Gregory Boyle
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Respect for all, reward for the worthy, reservation for none.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Unconditional love requires us to accept Billy for exactly who he is. He cannot be different at this present moment. He is perfectly normal based on his history.
- Heather T. Forbes
Help for Billy
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Great achievement requires personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Topic: Education, Hope, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
Do not be afraid ask questions.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness.
- Bryant McGill
Voice of Reason
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
- C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.
- Charles Eisenstein
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Topic: Education, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real. As they become "producers " they fall away from exploration and start fishing for the right answers with little thought. They believe they must always be right, so they quickly forget mistakes and how these mistakes were made. They believe that the only good response from the teacher is "yes," and that a "no" is defeat.
- John Holt
How Children Fail
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I follow the course marked out by my principles and, what is more, enjoy a deep and noble pleasure in following it. You deeply despise the human race, at least our part of it; you think it not only fallen but incapable of ever rising again... For my part, as I feel neither the right nor the wish to entertain such opinions of my species and my country, I think it is not necessary to despair of them. In my opinion, human societies, like individuals, amount to something only in liberty...And God forbid that my mind should ever be crossed by the thought that it is necessary to despair of success... You will allow me to have less confidence in your teaching than in the goodness and justice of God.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.
- Jodi Thomas
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!
- Jean Webster
Daddy-Long-Legs
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent explanations; monuments to themselves, in other words. In my view all teachers should be required to stop teaching at age thirty-two and not allowed to resume until they're sixty-five, so that they can live their lives, not teach them away - live lives full of ambiguity and transience and regret and wonder, be asked to explain nothing in public until very near the end when they can't do anything else.
Explaining is where we all get into trouble.
- Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Topic: Education
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