Quotes on Inspiring Education

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

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

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

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

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

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

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

Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

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

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

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