Quotes about Education

What is a teacher? I`ll tell you: it isn`t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

Paulo Coelho

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Maya Angelou

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Jacques Barzun

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Frank Zappa

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

Sarah Caldwell

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Albert Einstein

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Erich Fromm

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Gail Godwin

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Douglas Adams

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Michael Jackson

Example is the best precept.

Aesop