Quotes and sayings about Education

"The true university of these days is a collection of books"

"The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking"

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school"

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn"

"A book worth banning is a book worth reading"

"Learning doesn't happen from failure itself but rather from analyzing the failure, making a change and then trying again"

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

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you"

"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it"

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine"

"An Investment in knowledge pays the best interest"

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong"

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

"Education cost money, but then so does ignorance"

"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"

"Learning without thought is labor lost"

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

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

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

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

"The highest result of education is tolerance"

"Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune"

"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"

"Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library"

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

"There is no end to learning. When we feel that we have learned everything, it means that we have learned nothing"

"Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditiones habes." - if you can read this, you’re overeducated"

"The wise man reads both books and life itself"

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one"

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them"

"The little I know I owe to my ignorance"

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

"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"

"There is no knowledge that is not power"

"Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills"

"A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library"

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

"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"

"An educated nation have a lot of ideas, an un-educated nation don't have ideas, it limits to follow someone"

"Learning is not compulsory; it’s voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it’s voluntary. But to survive, we must learn."

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"

"Many only learn in two ways, one by reading and the other by association with smarter people"