Best Inspirational Educational Quotes

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

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

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

No one can take it away from you.