Education Quotes and Sayings

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.
William Ellery Channing

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
William R. Inge

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.
Anatole France

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion….
Muriel Spark

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams

Academy: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce

Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two objects of medical education: To heal the sick, and to advance the science.
Charles H. Mayo

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
Michel de Montaigne

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
Mark Twain

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
Rosabeth Moss Kantor

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
Virginia Woolfe

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas H. Huxley

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.
Martin H. Fischer

It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Max Beerbohm

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A.A. Milne

A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes

An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life.
Anonymous

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.
Grayson Kirk

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
John W. Gardner

You sought the last resort of feeble minds with classical educations. You became a schoolmaster.
Aldous Huxley