Top 100 School Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”

— Paulo Coelho

52. “No brain, no gain. Stay in school.”

— Michael Jordan

53. “I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”

— John Steinbeck

54. “You’ll never go wrong in doing what is right.”

— Robin S. Sharma

55. “Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”

— Bill Gates

56. “Teaching is the highest form of understanding.”

— Aristotle

57. “Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

58. “The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

59. “The Library is the heart of the University.”

— Charles William Eliot

60. “Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.”

— Sidney Hook

61. “Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.”

— Maria Montessori

62. “School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.”

— Calvin Coolidge

63. “Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”

— Bertrand Russell

64. “The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.”

— Haruki Murakami

65. “When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”

— Laozi

66. “Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.”

— Baltasar Gracián

67. “The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.”

— Will Smith

68. “The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.”

— George Bernard Shaw

69. “Even though I only have a high-school degree, I’m a professional student.”

— Bill Gates

70. “The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

71. “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

— Francis Bacon

72. “There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”

— Ray Bradbury

73. “Schools teach you how to work for money, but don’t teach how to make money work for you.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

74. “I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.”

— Richard Branson

75. “Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they’re learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.”

— Sugata Mitra

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

— Maria Montessori

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

— Abigail Adams

78. “If you’re planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: ‘I’m looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.’”

— Sean Covey

79. “While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn’t really need to go to school anymore.”

— Russell Crowe

80. “Don’t Let them fool you or even try to school you.”

— Bob Marley

81. “When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’”

— Quentin Tarantino

82. “Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.”

— Harper Lee

83. “The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.”

— Jean Piaget

84. “Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.”

— Michel Foucault

85. “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”

— Benjamin Franklin

86. “We’ve got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You’ve got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.”

— Howard Gardner

87. “We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

88. “War is the only proper school of the surgeon.”

— Hippocrates

89. “I didn’t go to film school, I went to films.”

— Quentin Tarantino

90. “As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.”

— Kevin Mitnick

91. “I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.”

— Charles Bukowski

92. “If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

93. “Life is not a fairground, but a school. – Franz Bardon.”

— Franz Bardon

94. “Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.”

— Tim Ferriss

95. “Business schools reward complex behavior but it’s the simple behavior that makes you successful in life.”

— John C. Maxwell

96. “I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

97. “School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn’t want to learn.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

98. “I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.”

— Stephen King

99. “No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.”

— Max Stirner

100. “Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

— Beatrix Potter