“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”
Albert Einstein

“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

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
Anatole France

“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.”
Annie Sullivan

“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”
Aristotle

“If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.”
Carl Rogers

“To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is educated.”
Edith Hamilton

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
Gloria Steinem

“Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.”
Henry Steele Commager

“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
Lord Brougham

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”
Marian Wright Edelman

“To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains.”
Mary Pettibone Poole

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”
Mortimer Adler

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

“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.”
Pete Seeger

“The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.”
Virginia Woolfe

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Will Durant

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
Winston Churchill

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

“Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.”
W.B. Yeats

“Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.”
Claus Moser

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
Benjamin Franklin

“My education was interrupted only by my schooling.”
Winston Churchill