The Greatest Inspirational
Education Quotes

This page is full of inspirational education quotes.They open the mind to consider, what is education.



Does it end with memorizing facts and passing a test, or is there something more?

Can education spark creativity, motivate us, and teach us how to think for ourselves? Education happens over the course of a lifetime, with many influences, from family, friends, television, music etc... Enjoy the following inspirational education quotes.

It is the mark of an educated mind
to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-Aristotle

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
-Malcolm S. Forbes

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything
without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
-Robert Frost

Enlighten the people generally,
and tyranny and oppressions of both mind and body
will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
-Thomas Jefferson

The mind is not a vessel to be filled,
but a fire to be ignited.
-Plutarch

It must be remembered that the purpose of education
is not to fill the minds of students with facts...
it is to teach them to think, if that is possible,
and always to think for themselves.
-Robert Hutchins

As a teacher I feel I have a moral obligation
to help the children in my classroom grow
toward becoming full human beings and to feel successful.
Teaching cognitive skills is not enough...
-Jean Medick

Good schools,
like good societies and good families,
celebrate and cherish diversity.
-Deborah Meier

In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory
or even how much you know.
It's being able to differentiate
between what you do know and what you don't.
It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know
and it's knowing how to use the information you get.
-William Feather

Every student can learn,
just not on the same day, or the same way.
-George Evans

I hear, and I forget.
I see, and I remember.
I do, and I understand.
-Chinese Proverb

The objective of education
is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
-Robert Maynard Hutchins

Information cannot replace education.
-Earl Kiole

The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant
than the subject matter we teach.
-Meladee McCarty

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts
and still be entirely uneducated.
-Alec Bourne

Education is the best provision for old age.
-Aristotle

Education is more than filling a child with facts.
It starts with posing questions.
-D.T. Max

Upon the subject of education,
not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it,
I can only say that I view it as the most important subject
which we as a people may be engaged in.
-Abraham Lincoln

In an effective classroom
students should not only know what they are doing,
they should also know why and how.
-Harry Wong

Learning is a treasure
that will follow its owner everywhere.
-Chinese Proverb

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