“Do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”
Plato
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Education Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · EDUCATION
Education Quotes
Read 200 of the best education quotes about learning, teaching, students and knowledge, from Aristotle, Confucius, Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey and more.
“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
Plato
BeautyPurpose
“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”
Aristotle
SocietyYouth
“We must be brought up in a particular way from our very youth, so as both to delight in and to be pained by the things that we ought; for this is the right education.”
Aristotle
CharacterUpbringing
“The living voice and the intimacy of a common life will help you more than the written word.”
Seneca
MentorshipTeachers
“The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts, but short and helpful, if by way of examples.”
Seneca
ExampleTeaching
“Why do we train our children in liberal studies? It is not because they can bestow virtue, but because they prepare the soul for the reception of virtue.”
Seneca
Liberal ArtsCharacter
“Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.”
Quintilian
MotivationStudents
“What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?”
Cicero
TeachersSociety
“Dare to be wise; begin!”
Horace
WisdomAction
“The greatest reverence is due to a child.”
Juvenal
ChildrenRespect
“The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied.”
Confucius
Lifelong LearningTeaching
“He was of an active nature and yet fond of learning, and he was not ashamed to ask and learn of his inferiors.”
Confucius
HumilityAsking Questions
“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”
Confucius
PracticeHabits
“The great end of learning is nothing else but to seek for the lost mind.”
Mencius
PurposeMind
“Learning must never cease. Blue comes from the indigo plant but is bluer than the plant itself.”
Xunzi
Lifelong LearningStudents Surpassing Teachers
“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.”
The Bible (Proverbs 13:20)
Good CompanyWisdom
“For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 1:18)
KnowledgeReflection
“But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee.”
The Bible (Job 12:7)
NatureLearning
“Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.”
The Bible (Proverbs 8:10)
Value Of KnowledgeWisdom
“In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity.”
The Bible (Titus 2:7)
TeachersExample
“My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.”
The Bible (James 3:1)
TeachersResponsibility
“For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach.”
The Bible (Ezra 7:10)
PreparationTeaching
“The whining school-boy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school.”
William Shakespeare
School DaysFunny
“Here in this island we arrived; and here have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit than other princesses can.”
William Shakespeare
HomeschoolingParents