Education Quotations

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

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

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

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

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

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

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.

In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.

Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.

My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.

We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.

A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.

We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

Latinos are concerned about the same pocketbook issues that matter to most middle class Americans - creating good-paying jobs in this country, making sure our children get a quality education, and ensuring that our families have access to affordable and quality healthcare.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education all the time. Children without an education are more likely to grow up to have HIV/AIDS. They're more likely to die in infancy or before the age of five.

After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

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

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

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

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

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

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.