Education Quotes

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.

Hosea Ballou

Education is not a form of entertainment, but a means of empowering people to take control of their lives.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Clarence Thomas

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

William Butler Yeats

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Richard Henry Dann

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

Label on a child's Superman costume: Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.

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

Jacques Martin Bar

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

Brian Tracy

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Lee Iacocca

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Jean-Jacques Rouss

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

H.L. Mencken

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

Jerome David Salinger