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Quotes About Education

Learn what you can, teach what you know, live how you ought.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Wealth won't make you happy. Power won't make you remarkable. Fame won't make you honorable. Education won't make you wise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learning can never be quantified with a flawed educational unit.
~ Louise Philippe Dulay
Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
~ Nelson Mandela
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
~ Confucius
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
~ Marva Collins
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
~ Rudolf Steiner
The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
~ Carol S. Dweck
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.
~ Emilie du Chatelet
Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.
~ Barbara Jordan
Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.
~ Charlotte Mason
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
~ Philip Pullman
Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationist will disappear.
~ Maria Montessori
Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.
~ Astrid Lindgren
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
~ Albert Einstein
I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
~ B. F. Skinner
My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!
~ Louis C. K.
"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"
~ Michel Legrand
We must go back to teach Europeans to love Europe.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker