15 Of The Most Powerful Quotes On Education And Learning

Schools may be a tad too boring for you, but the importance of education cannot be stressed well enough because it helps to open up the mind and expand it.

Here, in this post, we have come up with a few of the most inspiring, timeless, and thought-provoking quotes on education from eminent personalities across the globe.

ONE

“Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. “Light! Give me light!” was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.”

- Helen Keller

TWO

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

THREE

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

- Mark Twain

FOUR

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

- Robert Frost

FIVE

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”

- Thomas Paine

SIX

“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.”

- David M. Burns

SEVEN

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

- Aristotle

Source- Wiki

EIGHT

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

NINE

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”

- Doris Lessing

TEN

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

- Plato

Source- Wiki

ELEVEN

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.”

- Bill Beattie

TWELVE

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

- G.K. Chesterton

THIRTEEN

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.”

- William S. Burroughs

FOURTEEN

“You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.”

- Michelle Obama

FIFTEEN

“The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.”

- Jean Piaget