Education Quotes

"We are slaves to our own ignorance; education is the path to freedom."

"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind, as so many do at ten or twelve years of age, that here is his vocation."

"In the pursuit of knowledge, one must be willing to abandon certainty."

"Education is the most admirable and beautiful thing we have."

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate apparent pleasure in expression and performance."

"There are always two education systems competing: the one taught in school and the one learned in life."

"The greatest homemade money-maker of today is the one who goes to the library."

"She speaks good Hindi and is learning Greek and English and French."

"People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with books and more time in the railways, the factories, the streets."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"Education should awaken the mind, not merely fill it."

"Life teaches the lessons that books cannot."

"Culture is the habit of being pleased with excellence of all kinds."

"The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"The true educator must have courage and honesty."

"To understand a culture, one must understand its art."

"A man's real education begins when he stops listening to teachers."

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

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

"The privilege of education is significant and not to be taken lightly."

"One can read and write without having been taught to do so."

"When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."

"All my life I've been trying to learn to read."

"The greatest teacher is failure."

"Writing is a way of taking stock of your life."

"Education is the key to liberation."

"To arrive at what you do not know, you must go by a way which is the way of ignorance."

"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing."

"The purpose of education is to awaken the spirit."