Education Quotes

"Wisdom is perhaps underrated in the young."

"I was learning slowly about life."

"The object of every true education should be to make people not merely do right things, but enjoy right things."

"Education is in the main the instrument which is used to acclimate the young to the social order."

"I was not born in order to be educated so that I could have a career."

"Education is the most practical path to equality and justice."

"The mind, quick to jump to conclusions, was slower in retracting them."

"The book is to the mind what physical exercise is to the body."

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."

"Perhaps this is the greatest gift from my ancestors: the ability to wonder and to question."

"Poverty is a great teacher."

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

"It is not so much what you have learned, but what you have become."

"Life itself is the greatest teacher."

"Teaching is one of the noblest of professions."

"The privilege of education is not commonly given to women of other lands."

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to create a menace to society."

"Clever women are common and intelligent women are not uncommon."

"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."

"The world changes so that women who have no education cannot keep pace with it."

"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

"The resentment of the ordinary man toward the educated man is the resentment of the earth toward the seed."

"Our universities are increasingly producing a race of monkeys instead of scientists."

"A man may be born, but in order to be a man he must be taught."

"To be a writer, you must read widely."

"The most dangerous thing is to stop learning."

"The man who won't read has no advantage over the man who can't read."

"Education is the privilege of the few, which makes it all the more precious."