Top 200 Education Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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2. “Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Conrad Hall

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4. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

— Albert Einstein

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5. “To teach is to learn twice.”

— Joseph Joubert

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

— Sydney J. Harris

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7. “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”

— Vernon Howard

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8. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”

— Confucius

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9. “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

— Marian Wright Edelman

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

— Carl R. Rogers

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11. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”

— Vern Law

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12. “One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.”

— Henry Ford

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

— Plutarch

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14. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.”

— Alexander Pope

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15. “Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.”

— Albert Einstein

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16. “Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.”

— Bob Dylan

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17. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Knowledge Quotes, Imagination Quotes

18. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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19. “Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”

— Albert Einstein

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20. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

— Oscar Wilde

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21. “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

— Pablo Picasso

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22. “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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23. “The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.”

— Maria Montessori

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24. “Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage.”

— Paulo Freire

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25. “Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.”

— Jim Rohn

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26. “The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.”

— Maria Montessori

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27. “To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.”

— Bell Hooks

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28. “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

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29. “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

— Tony Robbins

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30. “Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.”

— Abdul Kalam

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31. “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

— Isaac Asimov

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32. “Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.”

— Frederick Douglass

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33. “The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.”

— Maria Montessori

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34. “Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.”

— Malala Yousafzai

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35. “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”

— Thomas Paine

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36. “Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without...”

— Kofi Annan

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37. “The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.”

— Maria Montessori

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38. “Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.”

— Parker J. Palmer

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39. “Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”

— Confucius

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40. “Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.”

— Paulo Freire

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41. “Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.”

— Howard Gardner

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42. “Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.”

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

43. “You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.”

— John Dewey

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44. “In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.”

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

45. “For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.”

— Kofi Annan

46. “Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility – these three forces are the very nerve of education.”

— Rudolf Steiner

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47. “I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.”

— Erin Gruwell

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48. “Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.”

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

49. “The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.”

— John Dewey

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50. “The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”

— Jean Piaget