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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.
Alexandra K. Trenfor

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G.K. Chesterton

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.
Chinese proverb

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe

Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Andy McIntyre

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.
Carl Rogers

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.
David M. Burns

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
Wayne Dyer

The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Lloyd Alexander

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John R. Wooden

You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.
Abraham Maslow

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Ben Franklin

If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
John Newton

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar

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If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry B Adams

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner

To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Chinese proverb

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Alfred Mercier

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn

The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his mistakes. The more a child’s work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child’s work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.
Franz Cizek

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Goethe

Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.
Claus Moser

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
Steve Irwin

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese proverb

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Plato

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow

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

No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

If a man is a fool, you don’t train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.

I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

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

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.—Dr. Seuss

Education is one thing no one can take away from you.—Elin Nordegren

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.—Confucius

Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.—George Washington Carver

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.—Maimonides

Enriching our brains with new and valuable information improves our ability to think, analyze, and process the world around us. Education is important because it broadens our knowledge, and this knowledge then opens our minds to new perspectives, ideas, beliefs, and cultures.

Being presented with different perspectives on the world helps us quickly adapt to new and unfamiliar environments. It also teaches us to stay calm when faced with problems, and it gives us techniques to deal with challenges in a logical way.

The quotes below encourage us to think about our own perspectives on the world we live in.

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.—Malcolm Forbes

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.—Albert Einstein

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

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.—William S. Burroughs

“What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.”—Chuck Grassley

Education goes beyond shaping us as individuals and enhancing our perspectives—it helps us better handle problematic situations. It can also help us form opinions on world issues and teach us about the larger community.

With educated opinions, we can support each other and make decisions that help establish a positive change in our communities. These quotes inspire us to reflect on how education can help us contribute more to our communities.

Education is the vaccine of violence.—Edward James Olmos

Learning is not compulsory… Neither is survival—W. Edwards Demin

The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.—Sydney J. Harris

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.—Martin Luther King Jr.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.—Nelson Mandela

The children of today are the future of tomorrow. And in order to tackle the environmental, social, and economic issues that our societies will face in the future, we need educated, skilled leaders who are dedicated to pursuing creative solutions. The quotes below remind us that education today is an investment we are making for tomorrow.

The ability to read, write, and analyze; the confidence to stand up and demand justice and equality; the qualifications and connections to get your foot in the door and take your seat at the table—all of that starts with education.—Michelle Obama

A child without education is like a bird without wings.—Tibetan Proverb

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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.—Mortimer Adler

The principal 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

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.—Malala Yousafzai

Education can empower us as individuals with the values, skills, and knowledge we need to provide valuable solutions to global issues. The quotes below emphasize how education empowers the individual so that they can better the world around them.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.—Peter Brougham

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.—John F. Kennedy

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.—Kofi Annan

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.—Malcolm X

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.―Walter Cronkite