In a previous post, I shared 101 motivational quotes for students and learners. Today I want to share with you 30 thought-provoking and controversial educational quotes. Since the institution of education and spoken words, there has been diverse school of thought regarding the impact of formal and self education to individual lives. With economic recession, high graduate unemployment and the general perception of higher education, some of these thought-provoking and educational quotes will challenge you to approach and threat your education from a different perspective.
Ponder over these thought-provoking and educational quotes and see how it relates to your current educational status. But before you get reading, remember the Chinese proverb; If you believe everything you read, better don’t read at all.
1. This is the mark of an educated mind: to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
2. Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G.K. Chesterton
3. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
4. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
5. You can never be overdressed or overeducated
Oscar Wilde
6. You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Brigham Young
7. [Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Jim Henson
8. Whatever the price of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Walter Cronkite
9. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
10. You know sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s.
Bill Watterson
11. Education is not to teach you but to awaken you.
Anonymous
12. Education: the part from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Mark Twain
13. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C.S. Lewis
14. Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King Jr.
15. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
16. Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Leonardo da Vinci
17. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Augustine of Hippo
18. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. Lewis
19. Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte
20. 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 robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself – educating your own judgments. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into narrow and particular needs of this particular society.
Doris Lessing
21. The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
22. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all
Aristotle
23. The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
Michel Legrand
24. Children must be taught how to think and not what to think.
Margaret Mead
25. A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Nelson Mandela
26. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
27. Education consists mainly of what you have unlearned.
Mark Twain
28. Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on
Terry Pratchett
29. Marriage can wait; education cannot.
Khaled Hosseini
30. 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
31. The man who reads nothing is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
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This post was last modified on May 27, 2024 3:23 pm