Inspirational quotes about education

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

There is no education like adversity.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
- Chinese proverb

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.
- Malala Yousafzai

Your best teacher is your last mistake.
- Ralph Nader

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
- Edward de Bono

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.
- Angela K. Bennett

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
- John F. Kennedy

The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.
- Lindsay Kolowich

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
- Carl Rogers

Development is a series of rebirths.
- Maria Montessori

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William A. Ward

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
- Khalil Gibran

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
- Confucius

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
- T.S. Eliot

I realized that becoming a master of karate was not about learning 4,000 moves but about doing just a handful of moves 4,000 times.
- Chet Holmes

School is a building with four walls and tomorrow inside.
- Lon Watters

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Andy McIntyre

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
- Lily Tomlin

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
- Henry Ford

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
- Agnes Repplier

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.