EDUCATION : A school cannot make the sun rise, but it can let the light in. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : A child who reads will be an adult who thinks. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : A mind is a terrible thing to waste. (Vernon Jordan: U.S. business executive and civil rights attorney who worked for various civil rights movement organizations, 1935-2021)

EDUCATION : An education that teaches us to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is for us to learn to do something about making the world a better place. (Johnnetta B. Cole: U.S. anthropologist and educator, Born 1936)

EDUCATION : An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

EDUCATION : Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : Better build schoolrooms for ‘the boy’ / Than cells and gallows for ‘the man.’ (Eliza Cook: English author and poet associated with political freedom for women, 1818-1889)

EDUCATION : Better untaught than ill taught. (English proverb: )

EDUCATION : Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

EDUCATION : Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)

EDUCATION : Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981)

EDUCATION : Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. (Daniel J. Boorstin: U.S. historian, professor, attorney, and writer, 1914-2004)

EDUCATION : Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats: Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, 1865-1939)

EDUCATION : Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man. (Swamiji Vivekananda: Indian Hindu monk, 1863-1902)

EDUCATION : Education is the most powerful weapon that we can use to change the world. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

EDUCATION : Education is the path from cocky arrogance to miserable uncertainty. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

EDUCATION : Education is the process of turning cocksure ignorance into thoughtful uncertainty.' (K. G. Johnson: U.S. Mechanical contractor)

EDUCATION : Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : Education is what survives when what you have learned has been forgotten. (B. F. Skinner: U.S. psychologist, professor, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher, 1904-1990)

EDUCATION : Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

EDUCATION : Education's purpose is to turn "mirrors" — reflecting moods and emotions of the times — into "windows" — bringing light to bear. (Sydney J. Harris: U.S. journalist and columnist, 1917-1986)

EDUCATION : Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. (Maria Montessori: Italian physician and educator, 1870-1952)

EDUCATION : For every generation, democracy must be born anew, with education as its midwife. (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952)

EDUCATION : For me, the fact that there's a rise of flat-Earthers is evidence of two things. One, we live in a country that protects free speech, and, two, we live in a country with a failed educational system (Neil d. Tyson: U.S. astrophysicist and author, Born 1958)

EDUCATION : Half the world does not know how the other half lives. (Francois Rabelais: French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk, and Greek scholar, 1494-1553)

EDUCATION : History is a vast early warning system. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

EDUCATION : I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

EDUCATION : If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

EDUCATION : If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

EDUCATION : If people empty their purse into their heads, no one can take it away from them, for an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

EDUCATION : If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world. (Sarah Boseley: U.S. writer, editor of 'The Guardian,' and recipient of several awards for her worldwide health-related projects)

EDUCATION : If we don’t feed the teachers, they’ll eat the children. (Lisa Delpit: U.S. educator, award- winning author, and professor)

EDUCATION : If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family. (Rudy Manikan: U.S. naturalist talk show host, 1945-2023)

EDUCATION : If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok: U.S. lawyer, educator, and former president of Harvard University, Born 1930)

EDUCATION : If your vision is for one year, plant rice; If your vision is for 10 years, plant trees. But if your vision is for 100 years, educate youth. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : Indian engineer, innovator, and education reformist, Born 1965 (Sonam Wangchuk: Indian engineer, innovator, and education reformist, Born 1965)

EDUCATION : It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. (Leo Buscaglia: U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998)

EDUCATION : It takes only a little light to put out darkness (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. (John Ruskin: English art critic, as well as art patron, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. 1819-1900)

EDUCATION : Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945)

EDUCATION : Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. (Oliver W. Holmes Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

EDUCATION : 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: U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1912-2002)

EDUCATION : Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

EDUCATION : Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, withouit which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. (Malaya Yousafzai: Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Born 1997)

EDUCATION : Prejudice is most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks. (Charlotte Bronte: English novelist and poet, 1816-1855)

EDUCATION : Public instruction should be the first object of government. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

EDUCATION : Read one thousand books AND walk one thousand miles. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : School vouchers are sold as a way for parents to handpick schools that reinforce values taught at home, but a democracy requires critical thinkers who are exposed to new ideas. (Richard D. Kahlenberg: U.S. scholar and advocate of the economic integration movement in K-12 schooling, Born 1963)

EDUCATION : So little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated. (Edith Hamilton: U.S. educator and internationally known author of her best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, 1867-1963)

EDUCATION : The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. (Robert Hutchins: U.S. educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, and president and chancellor of the University of Chicago, 1899-1977)

EDUCATION : The goals of education is for every classroom become an 'intensive-care' unit. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

EDUCATION : The highest result of education is tolerance. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

EDUCATION : The mind is not a vessel that needs filling but wood that needs igniting. (Plutarch: Greek historian, biographer. moralist, and essayist, best known for his in-depth biographies of famous Romans and Greeks detailed in his writings of "Parallel Lives," c. 45—120 C.E.)

EDUCATION : The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn . . . and change. (Carl Rogers: U.S. psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach in psychology, 1902-1987)

EDUCATION : The past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

EDUCATION : The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open mind. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

EDUCATION : The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

EDUCATION : The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian, and Caribbean history of the United States. (Carlos Fuentes: Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat, 1928-2012)

EDUCATION : The value of education is not as much the amount of knowledge as it is the ability to question knowledge—'better a well molded than a filled mind.' (: )

EDUCATION : The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. (Sydney J. Harris: U.S. journalist and columnist, 1917-1986)

EDUCATION : There is no shame in accepting the mistakes of one's country; the shame is in concealing the mistakes and letting the next generation quietly inherit horrors they had no part in. (Tony Angastiniotis: Greek Cypriot human rights activist and documentary-maker, Born 1966)

EDUCATION : Those who prevent history being taught fully intend to repeat it. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

EDUCATION : Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. (Roger Lewin: British prize-winning science writer and author of 20 books, Born 1944)

EDUCATION : Unlearned in history, people allow themselves to be governed by the Unknown Past. (: )

EDUCATION : We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

EDUCATION : What happens in the classroom among people is more important than any assignment, curriculum, procedure, or content. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. (Joseph Addison: English essayist, poet, playwright, politician, and co-founder of 'The Spectator' magazine, 1672-1719)

EDUCATION : When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train, and educate people. (Chinese Proverb: )

EDUCATION : When you lift up women, you lift up humanity. (Melinda Gates: U.S. philanthropist who with her husband, Bill Gates, co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — that at the time in 2015 was the world's largest private charitable organization, Born 1964)