Top 200 Education Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.”

— Lisa Delpit

52. “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

— John Locke

53. “Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

54. “By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.”

— Alvin Toffler

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

— Albert Einstein

56. “Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.”

— Michelle Obama

57. “The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.”

— David Ausubel

58. “Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.”

— Kofi Annan

59. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

60. “Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”

— William Arthur Ward

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

— Nelson Mandela

62. “Learning gives creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge. Knowledge makes you great.”

— Abdul Kalam

63. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”

— Malcolm X

64. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

65. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

— Margaret Fuller

66. “A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

— Horace Mann

67. “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.”

— Brad Henry

68. “In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.”

— Carol S. Dweck

69. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

70. “Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.”

— Abdul Kalam

71. “If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.”

— Confucius

72. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

— William Arthur Ward

73. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

— Margaret Mead

74. “Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life.”

— Charlotte Mason

75. “Play is the work of the child.”

— Maria Montessori

76. “I’m not a teacher, but an awakener.”

— Robert Frost

77. “Knowledge is power.”

— Francis Bacon

78. “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

— Francis Bacon

79. “Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.”

— Rudolf Steiner

80. “Education is the great engine to personal development.”

— Nelson Mandela

81. “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

82. “A child needs freedom within limits.”

— Maria Montessori

83. “All genuine learning comes through experience.”

— John Dewey

84. “Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience.”

— David A. Kolb

85. “Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.”

— Saint Augustine

86. “The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Winston Churchill

88. “What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?”

— Carol S. Dweck

89. “Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.”

— Maria Montessori

90. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

— Abigail Adams

91. “You cannot open a book without learning something.”

— Confucius

92. “What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.”

— Lev S. Vygotsky

93. “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

— Aristotle

94. “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”

— Ken Robinson

95. “Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.”

— Tony Buzan

96. “The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.”

— John Dewey

97. “Common Core is a big win for education.”

— Bill Gates

98. “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”

— Warren Buffett

99. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

— Og Mandino

100. “What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.”

— Benjamin Bloom