Education Quotes and Sayings

Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. Chesterton

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.
Wu Ting-Fang

Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer

Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
William Allin

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Edith Ann

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
George Bernard Shaw

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.
Ruby Manikan

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
Brander Matthews

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Albert Einstein

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter

Education made us what we are.
Claude Adrien Helvétius

A good clinical teacher is himself a Medical School.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
George Macaulay Trevelyan

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Ariel and Will Durant

A teacher is paid to teach, not to sacrifice rats and hamsters.
Edward A. Gall

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Bishop Mandell Creighton

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes Laertius

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett

It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first.
Samuel Johnson

And if education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori