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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
Sep 10, 2025
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
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.