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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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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays Including Essays, First & Second Series, English Traits, Nature & Considerations by the Way
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She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
- Terry Pratchett
Soul Music
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Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
- Maria Montessori
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There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living...In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another—namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.
- James Truslow Adams
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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
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A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.
- Anne Bishop
Daughter of the Blood
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
- Diogenes
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To understand a child we have to watch him at play, study him in his different moods; we cannot project upon him our own prejudices, hopes and fears, or mould him to fit the pattern of our desires. If we are constantly judging the child according to our personal likes and dislikes, we are bound to create barriers and hindrances in our relationship with him and in his relationships with the world. Unfortunately, most of us desire to shape the child in a way that is gratifying to our own vanities and idiosyncrasies; we find varying degrees of comfort and satisfaction in exclusive ownership and domination.
- J. Krishnamurti
Education and the Significance of Life: Jiddu Krishnamurti on Freedom, Self-Understanding, and Mature Love
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University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.
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In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
- Nicolas Gomez Davila
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To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.
- Ho Chi Minh
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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
- St. Augustine of Hippo
Confessions
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Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
- Alice Waters
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Real education doesn't make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative...is to live your life based on injustice and lies.
- Laurie Forest
The Black Witch
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The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
- Paul Karl Feyerabend
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It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.
- Oliver Bowden
Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
- J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
- W. Edwards Deming
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Osama, baah!" Bashir roared.

"Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home. As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone who can shoot at you once and then run off and hide while you have to remain eternally on guard. You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. That only way to defeat it is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.
- Greg Mortenson
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
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Topic: Education
The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.
- G.I. Gurdjieff
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Topic: Education, Philosophical
Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring
- Seymour Papert
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Topic: Education
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays Including Essays, First & Second Series, English Traits, Nature & Considerations by the Way
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Topic: Education
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
- Terry Pratchett
Soul Music
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Topic: Education
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
- Maria Montessori
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Topic: Education
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living...In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another—namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.
- James Truslow Adams
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Topic: Education
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.
- Anne Bishop
Daughter of the Blood
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Topic: Education
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
- Diogenes
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Topic: Education
To understand a child we have to watch him at play, study him in his different moods; we cannot project upon him our own prejudices, hopes and fears, or mould him to fit the pattern of our desires. If we are constantly judging the child according to our personal likes and dislikes, we are bound to create barriers and hindrances in our relationship with him and in his relationships with the world. Unfortunately, most of us desire to shape the child in a way that is gratifying to our own vanities and idiosyncrasies; we find varying degrees of comfort and satisfaction in exclusive ownership and domination.
- J. Krishnamurti
Education and the Significance of Life: Jiddu Krishnamurti on Freedom, Self-Understanding, and Mature Love
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Topic: Education
University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
- Nicolas Gomez Davila
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Topic: Education
To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.
- Ho Chi Minh
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Topic: Education
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
- St. Augustine of Hippo
Confessions
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Topic: Education
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
- Alice Waters
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Topic: Education
Real education doesn't make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative...is to live your life based on injustice and lies.
- Laurie Forest
The Black Witch
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Topic: Education
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
- Paul Karl Feyerabend
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Topic: Education
It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.
- Oliver Bowden
Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
- J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
- W. Edwards Deming
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
Osama, baah!" Bashir roared.

"Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home. As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone who can shoot at you once and then run off and hide while you have to remain eternally on guard. You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. That only way to defeat it is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.
- Greg Mortenson
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.
- G.I. Gurdjieff
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education, Philosophical
Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring
- Seymour Papert
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays Including Essays, First & Second Series, English Traits, Nature & Considerations by the Way
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
- Terry Pratchett
Soul Music
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
- Maria Montessori
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living...In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another—namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.
- James Truslow Adams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.
- Anne Bishop
Daughter of the Blood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
- Diogenes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
To understand a child we have to watch him at play, study him in his different moods; we cannot project upon him our own prejudices, hopes and fears, or mould him to fit the pattern of our desires. If we are constantly judging the child according to our personal likes and dislikes, we are bound to create barriers and hindrances in our relationship with him and in his relationships with the world. Unfortunately, most of us desire to shape the child in a way that is gratifying to our own vanities and idiosyncrasies; we find varying degrees of comfort and satisfaction in exclusive ownership and domination.
- J. Krishnamurti
Education and the Significance of Life: Jiddu Krishnamurti on Freedom, Self-Understanding, and Mature Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
- Nicolas Gomez Davila
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.
- Ho Chi Minh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
- St. Augustine of Hippo
Confessions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
- Alice Waters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
Real education doesn't make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative...is to live your life based on injustice and lies.
- Laurie Forest
The Black Witch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
- Paul Karl Feyerabend
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.
- Oliver Bowden
Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
- J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
- W. Edwards Deming
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
Osama, baah!" Bashir roared.

"Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home. As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone who can shoot at you once and then run off and hide while you have to remain eternally on guard. You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. That only way to defeat it is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.
- Greg Mortenson
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.
- G.I. Gurdjieff
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education, Philosophical
Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring
- Seymour Papert
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Education
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