Education Quotes and Sayings

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
Anonymous

All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.
Alfred the Great

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Herman Melville

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake.
Chevalier Jackson

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.
Jimmy Connors

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
B. F. Skinner

Education: a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
Dean William R. Inge

We class schools you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School, Good School, and School.
Evelyn Waugh

The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller

But, good gracious, you’ve got to educate him first.
You can’t expect a boy to be vicious till he’s been to a good school.
Saki

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different.
Anonymous

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John Dewey

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
George Evans

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi

Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life.
Frederick W.Robertson

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Aristotle

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Mortimer Adler