100+ BEST MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES ON EDUCATION

The difference between the educated and uneducated person is usually defined in terms of benevolence because education is not only about knowledge and degree. Many great people have shared their thoughts on humanity in these motivational quotes on education to increase awareness about it in some way or the other. These motivational quotes for education also promote humanity, because the more educated one is, the better person he is expected to be. One’s education cannot be justified with the certificates of your degrees unless he became a person of value and ethics as per the motivational quotes on education. Many motivational quotes on education have said that education is conspicuous in one’s behaviour, kindness, and perspective. We should try to educate ourselves from our soul, not just from our minds so that we can understand and relate the vision of those great people in their motivational quotes for education.

These motivational quotes on education will remind you that education is not only important for Economic Growth and Stability, but also for a happier and healthier life. According to many motivational quotes on education, it is the most effective tool to turn your dream into reality. The more you educate yourself, the more chances you have of getting successful. An educated person can also guide his children in a much better way.  While making you confident it gives you, it gives you many other social benefits. That’s why the ones who have written these motivational quotes on education are the educated people who get huge respect all over the world. 

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Here is the list of best motivational quotes on education, we hope you will enjoy reading it,

“A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” -Victor Hugo

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” -Mark Twain

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” -Arthur Ashe

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” -Jim Rohn

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” -Malcolm X

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” -Zig Ziglar

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” -Andy McIntyre

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.” -Carl Rogers

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” -Mark Twain

“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

“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

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

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” -Wayne Dyer

“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.” -Tom Bodett

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” -Lloyd Alexander

“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” -John R. Wooden

“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” -Abraham Maslow

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” -Ben Franklin

“If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein

“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” -John Newton

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” -Charles F. Kettering

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” -Zig Ziglar

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” -Jim Rohn

“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” -Clay P. Bedford

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” -Henry B Adams

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” -John W. Gardner

“To teach is to learn twice.” -Joseph Joubert

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” -Chinese proverb

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” -Alfred Mercier

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” -Erich Fromm

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” -James Baldwin

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” -Albert Schweitzer

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” -Roger Lewin

“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

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” -Alexandra K. Trenfor

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

“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” -Lady Bird Johnson

“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.” -Chinese proverb

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.” -Anatole France

“What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.” -Joseph Addison

“Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” -Peter Brougham

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” -Albert Einstein

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” -William Haley

“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” -Helen Keller

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” -Robert G. Ingersoll

“Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” -Abraham Lincoln

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.” -Buckminster Fuller

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” -Jim Rohn

“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.” -T.S. Eliot

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” -John Keats

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” -Michel Legrand

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” -George Santayana

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” -B.B. King

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” -Benjamin Franklin

 “Change is the end result of all true learning.” -Leo Buscaglia

 “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” -Malcolm X

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

 “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” -Albert Einstein

“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” -Jim Rohn

“The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his “mistakes.” The more a child’s work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child’s work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.” -Franz Cizek

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” -Goethe

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

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.“ -Steve Irwin

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” -Chinese proverb

“Do not train children to learning by force and 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

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” -Maya Angelou

“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it.” -Arnold Glasow

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” -Epictetus

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” -Abraham Maslow

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

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.” -G.K. Chesterton

“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.” -Peter Drucker

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

“If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.” -Desmond Bagley

“The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.” -William R. Inge

“People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.” -Bill Vaughan

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” -Henry David Thoreau

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

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”  –Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” –John Dewey

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”  –Kofi Annan

“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” –Mark Twain

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” -Edward Everett 

“They know enough who know how to learn.” -Henry Adams

“Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” –Chinese proverb

“Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” –Anatole France

“Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.” –Claude Bernard

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

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” -Abigail Adams

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”  -Aristotle

“It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.” -Agnes Repplierg

“They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace.” -Malala Yousafzai

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.” -Steven Wright

 “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” -Thomas Jefferson

“Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.” -Dr. W. Edwards Deming

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” -John Holt

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” -Og Mandino

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

“I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.” -Ann Brashares

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” -Walter Cronkite

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” -Muriel Spark

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” -Victor Hugo

“Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.”  -Dr. John G. Hibben

“Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” -John Hersey

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

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

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

 “Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.”  -Thomas Szasz

“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” -Conrad Hall

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” –Sydney J. Harris

“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” –Ernest Dimnet

“Every artist was at first an amateur.” –Ralph W. Emerson

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” -Mark Twain

“All men by nature desire to know.” -Aristotle

“Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.”  -W. E. B. Du Bois

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” -Alexander the Great

“Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.” -Anton Chekhov

 “Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.” -George Weah

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”  -Chanakya

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” -William Butler Yeats

“A good education is a foundation for a better future.” -Elizabeth Warren

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ” -Jane Austen

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” -Jim Rohn

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” -Michel Legrand

“By seeking and blundering we learn.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. ” -Pete Seeger

“Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.” -Claire Fagin

 “When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.” -John Taylor Gatto

“Only the educated are free.” -Epictetus

“A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.” -Anne Bishop

“Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.” -Frank Herbert

“I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.” -Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

“I don’t want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.” -Malala Yousafzai

“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.” -Mark Twain

“It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.” -Cormac McCarthy

“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.” -Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” -Malala Yousafzai

“Change is the end result of all true learning.” -Leo Buscaglia

“Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.” -Edward De Bono

“I've learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.” -Andy Rooney

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” -Sydney J. Harris

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

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” -Mahatma Gandhi

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” -C.S. Lewis

“The learning process continues until the day you die.” –Kirk Douglas

After reading these motivational quotes about education, you just have understood why it is valued enormously in our society. Unfortunately, in many countries, it became a luxury because of being so expensive in an uneven economy and remained only until motivational quotes on education. That’s why we should be truly grateful to our parents for working too hard to send us to school and college, that we can understand the meaning of these motivational quotes on education. Sometimes, educated people humiliate the people who are not privileged with the affordability for getting educated. It is nothing but the sheer insult of education because being educated does not mean to make others feel terrible about them. Those who know how to be kind to others irrespective of their background are the ones who understood education and these motivational quotes on education.

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