We all study and learn. Some of us go to college and some get even higher degrees. Does it mean that we are educated? Not necessarily. There is a difference between education and learning by rote. Education does not necessarily happen in the confines of the four walls of a school or a college. The world is full of examples of self educated people, many of whom never attended college and in some cases, even school! The education quotes given below tell us what education is and what it is not.
Note: Some education quotes deal with other aspects of education, like wisdom, knowledge, etc.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
- Aristotle
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step in knowledge.
- Benjmin Disraeli
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you'll never cease to grow.
- Anthony D'Angelo
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
- Samuel Johnson
One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
- Sophocles
It’s not what you don’t know that hurts you; it’s what you think you know that isn’t so.
- Source unknown
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.
- Chinese proverb
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
There is no knowledge that is not power.
- Ralf Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.
- Panchatantra
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B.F.Skinner
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Anonymous
Some more education quotes
If you would like to thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
- Tryon Edwards
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
- John Lubbock
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
- Francis Bacon
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
- Ben Sweetland
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
- John Powell
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
- Mortimer Adler
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
- Epictetus
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
- Khalil Gibran
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
- Bishop Mandell Creighton
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
