Education Quotes and Proverbs

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment: they know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams

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

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

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
Native American Saying

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Alfred Mercier

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

Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life.
Frederick W.Robertson

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time -- for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
T.S. Eliot

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.
Greek Proverb

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

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.
Thomas Jefferson

Practice is the best of all instructors.
Publilius Syrus

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.
William Ellery Channing

Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself.
Robin Cook

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
Charles W. Eliot

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
John W. Gardner

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

I am still learning.
Michelangelo

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained.
James A. Garfield

Education, like the mass of our age's inventions, is after all, only a tool; everything depends upon the workman who uses it
The Simple Life

Learning is like rowing upstream:
not to advance is to drop back.
Chinese Saying

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.
J.P Richter

Education should consist of a series of enchantments, each raising the individual to a higher level of awareness, understanding, and kinship with all living things.
Author Unknown

When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, 'As much as the living are to the dead.'
Diogenes Laetius

Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli

Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle

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