Education Quotes, Sayings about education

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats

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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
- Anatole France

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Education is wonderful it helps you worry about things all over the world.
- Joey Adams

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Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.
- E. C. McKenzie

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Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
- John Cotton Dana

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Education costs money,but then so does ignorance.
- Sir Claus Moser

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Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
- Chinese Proverb

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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
- Nicholas Murray Butler

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
- Thomas Carruthers

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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
- Annie Sullivan

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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Perelman

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Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.
- Jim Rohn

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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
- Cicero

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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
- Albert Einstein

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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
- John Ciardi

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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
- Niels Bohr

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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
- C. S. Lewis

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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
- Edith Ann

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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
- Beatrix Potter

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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
- Alec Bourne

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I may have said the same thing before… But my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
- Oscar Wilde

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Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
- William Allin

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Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
- Arthur Koestler

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein

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Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G. M. Trevelyan

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Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.
- Arie de Gues

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Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Broughan

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
- George Bernard Shaw

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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
- Ambrose Bierce

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Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don’t know.
- R. Verdi

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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
- Aristotle

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A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
- James B. Stockdale

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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- John Dewey

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

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Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
- G.K. Chesterton

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No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education.
- John Carolus S. J

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My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, ‘Well that taught me a lesson’.
- Ken Dodd

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