Educational Quotes that inspire

Below are some of my favourite quotations about Education, they are in no particular of preference.

The education of a man is never complete until he dies.

Robert E. Lee

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself

John Dewey

 

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John F. Kennedy

 

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

Conrad Hall

 

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

 

 

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Alvin Toffler

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.

Anatole France

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Education is the key to the future: You’ve heard it a million times, and it’s not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

Alex Tabarrok
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?

Maria Montessori

 

Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.

Albert Einstein

 

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Khalil Gibran

 

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Khalil Gibran