Famous Education Quotes

Famous quotes about education, collected by the New.edu team

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"Education is a gift that none can take away."

-American Proverb

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

-Aristotle

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"Education isn't what you learn, it's what you do with what you learn."

-Anonymous

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"By teaching you will learn. By learning you will teach."

-Latin Proverb

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"The principal goal of education is to create individuals who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done."

-Jean Piaget

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"Education is our passport to the future; for tomorrow belongs to those that prepare for it today."

-El Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) 

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"The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth."

-Erasmus

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"Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box."

-Frederick Douglass

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"This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop."

-Maria Montessori

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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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"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

-Allan Bloom

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"It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others."

-Mark Twain

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"Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere."

-Chinese Proverb

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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. -Jacques Barzun

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I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel. -Daniel Akaka

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The defining feature of a great education is what happens in the classroom. Everything starts from that and must be built around it.

-Bill Gates

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Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. -Ropo Oguntimehin