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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.
“Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.”
William Shakespeare
Over-StudyingWit
“I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.”
John Milton
PurposeCitizenship
“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright.”
John Milton
FaithPurpose
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
John Locke
KnowledgeProtection
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
John Locke
ReadingCritical Thinking
“To seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.”
John Amos Comenius
Teaching MethodsStudents
“Learning by head, hand and heart.”
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Holistic EducationTeaching Methods
“Come, let us live with our children.”
Friedrich Froebel
ParentsEarly Childhood
“Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ChildrenUnderstanding
“Man can only become man by education. He is merely what education makes of him.”
Immanuel Kant
Human NatureGrowth
“I would rather have a well-made than a well-filled head.”
Michel de Montaigne
Critical ThinkingWisdom
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”
John Adams
LibertyDemocracy
“Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
George Washington
SocietyHappiness
“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”
Horace Mann
PotentialGrowth
“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.”
Booker T. Washington
SkillsAction
“Education, on the other hand, means emancipation. It means light and liberty.”
Frederick Douglass
FreedomLight
“The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-EducationSchools
“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.”
Mark Twain
UnlearningFunny
“An Alma Mater, knowing her children one by one, not a foundry, or a mint, or a treadmill.”
John Henry Newman
UniversitiesPersonal Attention
“Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.”
John Dewey
Active LearningTeaching Methods
“We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself.”
Maria Montessori
IndependenceChildren
“A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never does all he can.”
John Stuart Mill
High ExpectationsStudents
“And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
TeachersLifelong Learning
“Learning makes a man fit company for himself.”
Thomas Fuller
Self-ImprovementReading