Browse this selection of the best education quotes.
1.Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~Malcolm S Forbes
2.Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence..
~Robert Frost
3.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
4.You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.
~Ethel Barrymore
5.Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
~John Dewey
6.Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
~Marian Wright Edelman
7.Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
~Nelson Mandela
8.The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
~Mortimer Adler
9.Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
~William Butler Yeats
10.There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
11.Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
~Jim Rohn