Education Quotes and Sayings

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Juvenal

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie

I expect you’ll be becoming a schoolmaster sir. That’s what most of the gentlemen does sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.
Evelyn Waugh

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
Anonymous

I was beaten by almost everyone at Eton, but never by the headmaster.
Nicholas Soames

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
Sir Claus Moser

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori

Theories and goals of education don’t matter a whit if you don’t consider your students to be human beings.
Lou Ann Walker

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
Epictetus

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Abbe Dimnet

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi

The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.
Martin H. Fischer

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Cornelius Vanderbilt

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Al McGuire

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
Paulo Freire

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
Charles W. Eliot

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.
Mark Twain

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
Stephen Leacock

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank