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25 quotes that accurately represent the problems with our education system.

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I talk a lot about my problems with how our current education system is run today. The rigid guidelines it imposes on students, the killing of creativity and individualism, the lack of teaching in practical relevant areas of life, and the grading system that motivates students to learn and then subsequently forget information in order to receive proverbial gold stars, are a few among many issues I have with the system and the way it operates. Here is a list of quotes by people who speak much more eloquently than I can on the problems with our education system. This is simply me sharing these quotes so they can reach a larger audience and I take no credit for any of the information presented from here on out.

“Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret; that secrets can only be known in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags.” – Ivan IllichSchools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret; that secrets can only be known in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags.” – Ivan Illich

“Our rapidly moving, information-based society badly needs people who know how to find facts rather than memorize them, and who know how to cope with change in creative ways. You don’t learn those things in school.” – Wendy Priesnitz

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ” – Albert Einstein

We destroy the disinterested (I do not mean uninterested) love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards — gold stars, or papers marked 100 and tacked to the wall, or A’s on report cards… in short, for the ignoble satisfaction of feeling that they are better than someone else…. We kill, not only their curiosity, but their feeling that it is a good and admirable thing to be curious, so that by the age of ten most of them will not ask questions, and will show a good deal of scorn for the few who do. – John Holt, How Children Fail

“There were no sex classes. No friendship classes. No classes on how to navigate a bureaucracy, build an organization, raise money, create a database, buy a house, love a child, spot a scam, talk someone out of suicide, or figure out what was important to me. Not knowing how to do these things is what messes people up in life, not whether they know algebra or can analyze literature.” – William Upski Wimsatt

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it . . . or because it is tradition, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conductive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings – that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. –  Gautama Buddha

“Nothing bothers me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.” – Seymour Papert

“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.” – R.D. Laing

“The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.” – Jules Henry

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein

“There is no neutral education. Education is either for domestication or for freedom.” – Joao Coutinho

“If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.”  Linda Darling-Hammond

Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that’s it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It’s a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.” – Tom Hodgkinson

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” – John Holt

“Public education reflects our society’s paternalistic, hierarchical worldview, which exploits children in the same way it takes the earth’s resources for granted.” – Wendy Priesnitz

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on – because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.” ~ Noam Chomsky

What is the purpose of industrial education? To fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence? Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States and that is its aim everywhere else. – H. L. Mencken

“I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.” – John Taylor Gatto

“The anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don’t know.” – John Holt

“Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. However, most of what we learn before, during, and after attending schools is learned without its being taught to us. A child learns such fundamental things as how to walk, talk, eat, dress, and so on without being taught these things. Adults learn most of what they use at work or at leisure while at work or leisure. Most of what is taught in classroom settings is forgotten, and much or what is remembered is irrelevant.” – Russell Ackoff in The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience.” – Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller’s Teacher

“Our large schools are organized like a factory of the late 19th century: top down, command control management, a system designed to stifle creativity and independent judgment.’ – David T Kearns, CEO Xerox

“Do not train children in learning by force and 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

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” ― Isaac Asimov

“I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki

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30(+1) Thought-Provoking and Controversial Quotes to get you Thinking

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May 27, 2024

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.

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1. This is the mark of an educated mind: to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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.

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.

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.

12. Education: the part from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

13. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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.

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.

22. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all

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.

27. Education consists mainly of what you have unlearned.

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.

31. The man who reads nothing is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

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50 of the Best Quotes About Education

Learn as if you were to live forever.

Being an educator is not always the easiest job, but knowing you have made an impact on students’ lives can be so rewarding. Through all of the good times and bad, you continue to persevere and provide education to students of all backgrounds and abilities. We collected 50 of the best quotes about education to celebrate the best parts of teaching, learning, and the impact they have on the world.

Our Favorite Quotes About Education

“education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.” — malcolm x.

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” — Elin Nordegren

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm Forbes

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” — Abigail Adams

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. … Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“A person who won’t read has no advantage over a person who can’t read.” — Mark Twain

“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” — Unknown

“Education is the key to unlock a golden door of freedom.” — George Washington Carver

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” — John F. Kennedy

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” — George Santayana

“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle

“Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life.” — W.E.B Du Bois

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” — Horace Mann

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” — Steve Irwin

“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” — Sidney Hook

“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” — William Bennett

“Education is the key which will unlock the door of opportunity for you.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” — Maya Angelou

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” — Bill Nye

“The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Helen Keller

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle

“To teach is to learn twice.” — Joseph Joubert

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” — Confucius

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” — Mark Van Doren

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” — Margaret Mead

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” — Henry Ford

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Brooks Adams

“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buehner

“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” — Eliphas Levi

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai

“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.” — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” — Isaac Asimov

“Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.” — Ezra Pound

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” — Marian Wright Edelman

“It is only the ignorant who despise education.” — Publilius Syrus

“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” — William Morris

“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.” — Nancy Astor

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.” — Norman Cousins

“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.” — John Ruskin

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.” — Horace Mann

“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.” — Frederick William Robertson

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.” — Edward Everett

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14 Quotes from Einstein on Education (with Sources)

On Schooling:   ‘’It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. ’’  [quoted in The New York Times , March 13 1949, p. 34].

On Imagination: ‘ ’Knowledge is limited.  Imagination encircles the world. ’’ [quoted in “What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck” Saturday Evening Post , October 26th, 1929, p. 11].

On Love of Learning : ’I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious .’’ [quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe , p. 548].

On Creativity: ‘’It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.’ ‘ [quoted in Alice Calaprice, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein , p. 100].

On Play : “The desire to arrive finally at logically connected concepts is the emotional basis of a vague play with basic ideas. . . . . this combinatory or associative play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.”   [quoted in Jacques Hadamard, An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field , Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1945, p. 142].

On Curiosity : “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity.’’  [quoted in, ‘’Death of a Genius–Old Man’s Advice to Youth: ‘Never Lose a Holy Curiosity,’’ Life Magazine 38, no. 18, (May 2, 1955): p. 64].

On Wonder: ”The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffled-out candle.”  [quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe , p. 387].

On Individuality:   ”The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. . .”   [quoted in Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions , Broadway Books, p. 64].

On Neurodiversity : His son, Albert Einstein Jr. wrote: ” [Einstein] was . . . considered backward by his teachers. He told me that his teachers reported to his father that he was mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams .” [quoted in Victor Goertzel and Mildred G. Goertzel, Cradles of Eminence, p. 248.

On Compassion:   ‘’ Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty .’’  [quoted in Walter Sullivan, ‘’The Einstein Papers: A Man of Many Parts,’’ The New York Times , March 29, 1972, p. 20].

On Care for Nature :  ” In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence .”  [quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein , p. 32].

On Tolerance :  ‘’ Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. ’’ [quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein , p. 297].

On Beauty:   ‘’ To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly; this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man .”  [quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe , p. 387].

On Education:   ‘’ The wit was not wrong who defined education in this way: ‘Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school .’’ [quoted in Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions , p. 63].

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95 Education Quotes: Inspire Children, Parents, AND Teachers

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Why is education important?

Education is the key to everything that is good in our world today. Advances in computers, information technology, math, medicine, psychology, engineering and every other discipline would be impossible if education didn't help us build on the advances of the great minds that came before us.

In fact, it is essential that as a society that we keep learning new things . Education is not only about the past and present, but it is also the key to the future. It will help discipline our children for the intellectual challenges of the rest of the 21st century. And it not only teaches our children facts but also teaches them how to think and learn on their own.

So to honor all educators, teachers, administrators, professors and even those involved in cutting edge online education, here are 95 education quotes that will hopefully provide you with a bit of inspiration.

These quotes about education show both the past and present views on education. They also show clearly why education is also so important for our future.

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What is a Good Education?

There will always be arguments about what is taught in schools. Socrates was fed poison for teaching the “wrong things”. William of Ockam and Galileo are two great examples that philosophy and science have always been controversial topics (to understate the issue) when education runs counter to the status quo.

The line on what is good education seems to keep moving.

With common core and year-round schools coming into vogue these days, schools are a very different place than when I was a kid. And education 50 years from now will be even more different. I imagine 3-D display classrooms, with virtual summer bulletin boards and a ton of technology streamlining learning. (Even now, you check out the best educational apps that kids can use to better engage in learning .)

Yes, the future of education may seem strange to us today, but the changes will be made for the better of the student, or the changes will not last long.

When I think of, “what is good education” one quote comes to my mind. A quote by John Fitzgerald Kennedy that I think encapsulates what a good education is really all about:

(Are you a teacher looking to create goals for the next school year? Our post on SMART goals examples for teachers might help! )

With our first education quote out of the way, I will stop my essay, and give you a look at what you can expect from the rest of this quote post.

This article will feature many education quotes by many of the greatest thinkers of all time: Albert Einstein, George Santayana, Confucius, Maya Angelou, Francis Bacon, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, and Benjamin Franklin

But all these quotes are not just the serious musings of the bright lights from history. Many entertainers have chimed in over the years with their own quotes about the importance of education. This list has education quotes from Jim Henson, Dr. Seuss , H.G Wells, C.S. Lewis, Katey Sagal, Tupac Shakur, and Lady Gaga.

Without further ado, let’s get to the education quotes. Starting first with the most important aspect of education: kids. As the late Whitney Houston sang “ I believe that children are our are future.  Teach them well and let them lead the way ”

Let's start by focusing on quotes about the impact of education on children…

Education Quotes for Kids

• “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” – Jim Henson
• “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”– Dr. Seuss
• “Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” – Chinese proverb
• “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” – George Santayana
• “Children just need the time, space, and permission to be kids.” – Angela Hanscom
• “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead

• “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” – Ernest Dimnet
• “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius

• “Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” – Roger Lewin

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.” – Thomas Szasz

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.” – Thomas Szasz

• “Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.” – Glenn Beck
• “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” – Maya Angelou
• “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.’” – Maria Montessori
• “Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” – Harold Hulbert
• “I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.” – Ann Brashares
• “Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”– Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ”– Nelson Mandela

• “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin
• “Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.” – Sir Anthony Seldon

Educational Quotes to Motivate Your Students

Creating self-motivation is a challenge . It's even harder to generate motivation in a classroom setting.

While a few kids are motivated to do well from their own thirst for knowledge. Most are not.

Particularly younger kids may go into school kicking and screaming the whole way. While the best motivation will always be intrinsic motivation something has to be done to give kids that initial motivation until they grow up enough to motivate themselves.

Parents and teachers are always working up new tricks to give these students a bit of motivation. Of course, in many ways the best motivation for the young kids remains the old “carrot and stick” method. Let the child self reward when they do good jobs and have a set of punishments when they do not live up to standards.

Not much has changed when it comes to motivation over the years, except you might be taking away time playing video games instead of taking away time from playing ball with their friends.

Regardless, some of the educational quotes below will hopefully help students gain a little bit of motivation, or at least give parents and educators some ideas on applying some extrinsic motivation.

• ​ “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” – Francis Bacon
• “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
• “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”– Anthony J. D'Angelo

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D'Angelo

• “The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.” – Lindsay Kolowich

“The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” – Confucius

• “When the student is ready, the master appears.” – Buddhist proverb

• “Everybody’s a teacher if you listen.” – Doris Roberts
• “Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.” – Rose Kennedy

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier

• “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” – Dr. David M. Burns

“Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” – John Hersey

• “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

• “Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” – Lloyd Alexander

• “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” – Og Mandino
• “Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and diligence.” – Abigail Adams
• “A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.” – Roy H. Williams
• “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Zig Ziglar

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Zig Ziglar

Quotes About Education and Success

The section of quotes below I have titled “quotes about education and success”. These quotes deal a lot with what it takes to achieve success in learning and education.

Of course, “success” is sort of a nebulous term. What one person views as success, another might view as a failure. For some, success is raising their child to be a decent person, for another success might be making a lot of money . Or gaining fame. Or power. Or finding happiness . Ultimately success can be best defined by understanding your core values and what you value in life.

I have talked about success a lot here on this blog. It's a popular concept for people trying to change their habits because almost everybody wants to succeed in some aspect of their lives. They are trying to learn from the mistakes of others and thereby increase their own chances of success.

I have also written a lot of quote posts, similar to this one, relating to success in its many forms and giving inspiration to those seeking to succeed. If you want to check out these success quote posts, the following is a shortlist.

• 51 Success Quotes from History's Most Famous People
• 51 Achievement Quote to Inspire Your Journey to Sucess
• Great quotes on Failure and Success
• 100 Hard Work Quotes to Achieve All You Want in Life

You can also read up on few articles I have written about achieving success:

• 21 Success Habits of Highly Organized People
• 9 World Famous Successful People Who Failed and Overcame Adversity
• 43 Experts Share Their #1 Success Habit

But enough about success in general. Let’s jump right into the quotes about education and success shared below.

• “That best academy, a mother’s knee.” – James Russell Lowell
• “I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.” – Deborah Norville
• “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – WB Yeats

• “Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I’ve ever done.” – Katey Sagal
• “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum
• “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” – Dr. Seuss
• “The more certain kids are that someone’s got their back, the more confident and autonomous they can be.” – Melinda Wenner Moyer

The more certain kids are that someone’s got their back, the more confident and autonomous they can be. ” – Melinda Wenner Moyer

• “ If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.” – Lady Gaga
• “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” – Rabindranath Tagore
• “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou
• “My parents encouraged thought. You’ll get through life better if you learn how to think.” – Holly Near
• “I believe that a parent’s role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.” – David Soul
• “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass
• “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde

T he best way to make children good is to make them happy .” – Oscar Wilde

• “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson
• “Education… is painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning, by praise, but above all — by example.” – John Ruskin
• “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. – Marian Wright Edelman

Quotes About Teachers and Teaching

At the heart of education lies the most important person in the educational world: the teacher.

A good teacher can change a student’s life far out of proportion to the amount of time they spend in their lives. Of course, A bad teacher can do the same, in a negative way. But fortunately, there are far more good teachers out there than bad ones.

The teacher quotes below are in honor of all the good teachers out there and for all the good they have done for students past, present and into the future.

• ​ “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
• “Teachers are those who help us in resolving problems which, without them, we wouldn’t have.” – Unknown
• “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward

• “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese proverb
• “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” – Khalil Gibran
• “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” – John Dewey

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” – John Dewey

• “There is no single way to educate.” – Michael Gurian
• “I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein
• “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” – Gail Goldwin
• “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” – Japanese proverb
• “As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I’m the least authoritarian professor you’ll ever meet.” – Niall Ferguson
• “I’m not sayin’ I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will.” – Tupac Shakur
• “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”– Henry Brooks Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Brooks Adams

• “The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.” – John Ruskin
• “Love is a better teacher than duty.” – Albert Einstein
• “If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.” – Confucius
• “Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.” – Mickey Hart
• “The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.” – Amos Bronson Alcott

Education Quotes About Experience and Mistakes

All education in life does not come at the hands of teachers. All learning does not take place in classrooms and labs.

One of the very best teachers in life is experience. Some people refuse to learn any other way, and even those that try to carefully learn before doing things will find they are often taught surprising lessons by experience.

For most of us, experience will be one of our best teachers. We just need to be self-aware enough to notice the lessons and learn from the mistakes.

The educational quotes below talk about making mistakes and learning from them. Do this often enough and you will begin to find wisdom and happiness .

• “Experience is the teacher of all things.” – Julius Caesar
• “Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.” – Minna Antrim
• “What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.” – Wendell Phillips
• “Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” – C.S. Lewis
• “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
• “The years teach much which the days never know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.” – A. Bronson Alcott
• “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
• “This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!” – Swami Sivananda
• “Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” – Leonardo da Vinci
• “Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.” – Steve Harvey

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.” – Steve Harvey

• “But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.” – Kathy Ireland
• “Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.” – Euripides
• “The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.” – Doug Larson
• “Our ability to achieve success depends on the strength of our wings gained through knowledge and experience. The greater our knowledge and experience, the higher we can fly.” – Catherine Pulsifer
• “Your best teacher is your last mistake.” – Ralph Nader
• “Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.” – William Hazlitt

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.” – William Hazlitt

• “By crawling, a child learns to stand.” – Hausa
• “You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.” – H.G. Wells

Final Thoughts on Quotes About Education

This final section of education quotes is a short one. It has only the most famous education quote. Along with the Kennedy quote I used in the beginning of this educational quote post, there is one more quote that I personally love about learning and education…

I find this simple quote to be quite profound, and often ask myself this question when I think about my understanding of a concept. Could I explain it in ten words or less? Could I explain it to someone with no background in the subject? If the answer is no, I need to do more research.

Hopefully the quotes we showcased on this page inspired you a little to embrace the many benefits of learning and education. Taking the clay of our children and helping the parents too slowly mold children into thinking adults. It is a tough job, and often thankless. But by making this post I want to say to all teachers. Mine from the past, my child’s in the future and of course all other teachers out there.

And if you want more eye-opening quotes, be sure to check out these blog posts:

• 82 Dream Big Quotes: Inspiration to Turn Your Dreams into Reality
• 51 Best Growth Mindset Quotes for Kids
• 103 Knowledge Quotes on the Importance of Always Learning

Finally, if you want to use these quotes to make a lasting change to your life, then watch this free video that details the 7-minute habit for planning your day to focus on what's truly important to you. .

Well…that's it from me. Now it's your turn…

What are your favorite education quotes?

Do you have a favorite from this list? If so, why?

Do you love an educational quote that did not make this list? If so, I would love to hear it?

Are you a teacher or an educator? If so let me know, just so I can say “thanks” for doing one of the most important jobs in the world. Teaching and molding the next generation. Ignite those fires of learning!

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Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead. – Nora Ephron

Good Morning and thank you for the beautiful quotes, my favorite one is the one which says : The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm., keep going thank you.

it is very nice qoutes mankind can learn from

I always love Dr. Seuss saying. It is really a good thing to keep on reading and learning new things in life. Let our mind soar to that wonderful world of books and new vocabulary.

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Education Quotes for Teachers and Students

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Whether you’re a teacher or a student, a new school year is an exciting time. These education quotes will get you ready to enjoy teaching and learning anytime.

School pushes us out of our comfort zone, teaches us to dream big, and encourages us to achieve our potential.

In celebration of all the amazing things that education, we’ve put together a list of the best quotes about school, learning, and teaching.

So whether you’re a parent, student, or teacher – we’ve got you covered as you get ready for another year of school.

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Top 10 Education Quotes

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Oprah Winfrey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration . Bill Frist

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Herbert Spencer

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett 

Quotes about Education

Whether you’re at the beginning of a new year or semester of learning, or aren’t quite sure where your knowledge will take you next – look no further than these inspiring education quotes.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Ernest Dimnet

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes

Only the educated are free. Epictetus

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. Plato

It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling. Murray N. Rothbard

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin Fisher

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. Shakuntala Devi

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking

Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. George Carlin

Even the genius asks questions. Tupac Shakur

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers

Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do. Bruce Lee

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. Lewis

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein

Development is a series of rebirths. Maria Montessori

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. Buddha

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. Mark Twain

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. W.B. Yeats

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. Sir Claus Moser

Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle

They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. Muriel Spark

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George Washington Carver

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller

Learning Quotes

Live as if you will die tomorrow. Learn as if you will live forever. Mahatma Gandhi

The learning process continues until the day you die. Kirk Douglas

The doer alone learneth. Friedrich Nietzsche

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first. Ray Congdon

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. Wendell Berry

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. Voltaire

Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go! Dr. Seuss

Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work. William Crawford

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb

The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. B.B. King

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid. G.K. Chesterton

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Henry Ford

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. Thomas Szasz

Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. Harry S. Truman

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. Claude Bernard

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. Vernon Howard

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world. Eric Hoffer

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. Claude Bernard

Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman

I’m still learning. Michelangelo

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. Michel Legrand

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle

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School Quotes

A new desk, a handful of freshly sharpened pencils, the first page of a new workbook… there are no days quite like school days!

From Kindergarten to college, celebrate all stages of education and their role in shaping our futures with these great school quotes.

In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. Tom Bodett

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school. Terrance Deal

We don’t stop going to school when we graduate . Carol Burnett

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work. Richard Livingstone

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. Harold Howe

School made us ‘literate’ but did not teach us to read for pleasure. Ambeth Ocampo

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E.M. Forster

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. Robert T. Kiosaki

The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. Dr. Seuss

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. Chuck Grassley

Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials is like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing. Madeline Hunter

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. Agnes Repplierg

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. Og Mandino

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

School is a place that provides education, and education is the key to life. Unknown

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. John Taylor Gatto

I’m not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. Emma Watson

School prepares you for the real world… which also bites. Jim Benton

There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. Ray Bradbury

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book for everything. Robert Frost

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. George Evans

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.Margaret Atwood

Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. Roy T. Bennett

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. Stanley Kubrick

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year. Henry Ford

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else. James E. Faust

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun. Josephine Baker

Education begins at home . You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him. Geoffrey Holder

Teaching Quotes

Teachers have the amazing power of being able to inspire young minds.

Celebrate those who help children and young people achieve their potential with these quotes about teachers and teaching.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage . A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential. John C. Maxwell

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world. Malala Yousafzai

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson. John Henrik Clarke

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Cicero

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C.S. Lewis

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

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. Ruth Beechick

Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. John Holt

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. Frank Herbert

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor

Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Francis Keppel

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge. Brad Sherman

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. Joseph Campbell

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. Solomon Ortiz

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers

We hope you’re feeling inspired and excited to go back to school!

Enjoy these education quotes and quotes on teaching and learning anytime you need some extra schooling for your mind. Let us know your favorite below!

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This is the best quote for education The quote which i love in this list is “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

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30 Education Quotes to Appreciate the Gift of Knowledge

Education unlocks your mind, offers endless possibilities and expands your horizons here are 30 education quotes to appreciate the gift of knowledge..

Education unlocks your mind and expands your horizons. Knowledge helps you see the world in a whole different perspective -- it’s like stepping out of the darkness into the light.

Education is so much more than what we learn in school. It also consists of what our parents pass on to us, what we learn out of curiosity, what we learn from others and from our own life experiences.

When you want to know more about something, you invite truth and possibility into your life. You develop critical thinking and you become better at making your own decisions. When you educate yourself, you become independent and powerful. The facts that you know become tools that no one can take away from you.

The world we live in is a fascinating place, and the more we know about it, the better we become at living in it. We hope that the following education quotes will awaken you thirst for knowledge. Because regardless of your age, there’s still so much left to learn about.

Here are 30 education quotes to appreciate the gift of knowledge:

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ( more Martin Luther King Jr. quotes )

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ARISTOTLE ( more Aristotle quotes )

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. NELSON MANDELA ( more Nelson Mandela quotes )

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. VICTOR HUGO

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; AND if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. CHINESE PROVERB

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. MALCOLM X ( more Malcolm X quotes )

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn … and change. CARL ROGERS

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. SYDNEY J. HARRIS

What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul. JOSEPH ADDISON

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ANDY MCINTYRE

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ARISTOTLE

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.  ALBERT EINSTEIN ( more Albert Einstein quotes )

Change is the end result of all true learning. LEO BUSCAGLIA

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. JIM ROHN ( more Jim Rohn quotes )

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. CHINESE PROVERB

The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. DR. SEUSS ( more Dr. Seuss quotes )

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. T.S. ELIOT

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.   MAHATMA GANDHI ( more Mahatma Gandhi quotes )

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

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

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. PETER BROUGHAM

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. CHINESE PROVERB

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. GEORGE SANTAYANA

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. HELEN KELLER

Upon the subject of education… I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. ABRAHAM LINCOLN ( more Abraham Lincoln quotes )

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. B. B. KING

When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world. SHAI RESHEF

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. G.K. CHESTERTON

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. JAMES BALDWIN

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Pamela Anderson has it all: beauty, fame and success. So why can’t the most famous blonde find her fairytale ending? Why is Pamela so unlucky in love and what dark secrets lie behind her seemingly glamorous life?

The Many Marriages of Pamela Anderson

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Pamela Anderson had a fairytale look at weddings from a young age. "I'd meet somebody, fall in love, and it would just be very romantic and it would be love at first sight."

But sadly, none of her nine weddings led to that dream relationship for the 56 year old actress.

While she looks to have found peace and calm in her later years, Anderson's previous relationships were fraught with abuse, drugs, and fear.

How many husbands did Pamela have over the years?

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee (1995-1998, 2008-2010)

The bad-boy of rock, Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, was the first man to sweep Anderson off her feet. The two stars had a whirlwind relationship that resulted in sons Brandon and Dylan. But what was once a fairytale marriage was also incredibly 'tragic,' ending in Tommy Lee being charged with spousal and child abuse.

While the Baywatch babe refers to Tommy Leed as "the only man I ever really loved was Tommy Lee," the two were not able to make it work.

Anderson and Kid Rock (2001-2003, 2006)

Anderson married the controversial rapper and musician a total of four times, though she knew it was a mistake, "right when I got married."

It looks like there was no love lost, as both have confirmed they never spoke again after the split.

Pamela Anderson and Rick Salomon (2007, 2013-2015)

Rick Salomon made a name for himself as a sometimes actor and poker player. Salomon turned out to have a serious drug addiction which Anderson only discovered when she found his crack pipe in the Christmas tree. Their marraige was annulled but they reconciled in 2013, thought the second marriage was short-lived.

Pamela Anderson and Jon Peters (2020) Kind of...

While it turned out the two never had an official marriage certificate, Anderson did announce her marraige to movie producer Jon Peters. Husband number five didn't last long, just a mere 12 days before the two split.

Pamela Anderson and Dan Hayhurst (2020-2022)

Anderson met her last husband, Dan Hayhurst, when he was the contractor for her house. The marriage survived two years before they went their separate ways.

"You know, it was more like trying to put a family unit back together. But I wasn't really in love. I just was going through the motions and then realizing, I have nothing in common with this person. Like I was putting people in my life to kind of numb some of the pain or be with someone, companionship, but nothing nothing healthy."

Woman “Accidentally” Forgets to End Call Before Speaking About Daughter-In-Law

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Even though we’re told we shouldn’t care what other people think of us, deep down, many of us still do. Wanting to be accepted and loved is natural, and it can be devastating to hear someone talk badly about us behind our backs.

However, hearing someone say nice things about us when they don’t think we’re listening can be incredibly uplifting . One mother recognizes that, which is why she routinely "forgets" to hang up on her daughter-in-law.

A Secret Good Deed

A mother-in-law made sure to make her daughter-in-law feel special

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships can have a bad reputation. Many accounts of power struggles and differing points of view in the media and online set the tone for how some people expect these connections to be. But that’s not always the case, and this mother-in-law proves it.

Recently on Reddit, someone asked what secrets people are hiding that they would be willing to share online. A user named Kindly-Article-9357 had the best response: she was secretly uplifting her daughter-in-law.

“I've started to on occasion ‘accidentally’ (but on purpose) not hang up my phone correctly when getting off a call with my daughter-in-law,” she shared . “I then proceed to talk to my husband about how much I enjoy talking to her, how lovely I think she is, how glad I am that our son chose her, and whatever other boost I may think she needs.”

A Chosen Family

According to the woman, her daughter-in-law doesn’t have any family that uplifts her, and historically, that tears her down. So she decided to uplift the woman with these calls. It all started because she had accidentally butt-dialed her daughter-in-law one day and didn’t realize it when she began talking about her.

“I started doing this after my son told me about his wife coming to him in full-on snot tears,” she recalled of the experience. “She stayed on the line to hear what I ‘really’ thought of her, expecting the worst because that's been her experience of family. Apparently, she was quite touched by the things I said, and my son told me it gave her a confidence boost that lasted weeks.”

Now, the woman uses age to her advantage to continue making the couple feel good.

“So I do it more often now. Neither of them have any idea I do it on purpose, though. They just think I'm getting old and worse at managing my tech,” she added.

Leading By Example

According to the woman, she was inspired to foster a positive relationship with her son’s wife after her own experiences dating a man with a terminally ill mother.

“She had this calm serenity about her that I think only comes from making peace with your own death,” she added in the comments. “*She* treated me like her own daughter , and it made me feel so seen and accepted. It is her example that I try to follow with my own kids and their spouses.”

The story touched many in the comments, especially those who wished their own relationships with their in-laws were stronger and people who said they could use a boost like that themselves.

“As a girl who grew up feeling like a failure and a burden, this makes me cry. You're a wonderful MIL and the world needs more people like you,” one person shared.

Speaking With Kindness

It’s one thing to speak nicely about others when they’re listening, but it’s a whole other thing when someone overhears you speaking kindly about them. It’s validating and uplifting and something we can easily do for one another in life without much effort.

We don’t need to fake hang-ups to uplift others. Speaking kindly about family members, children, friends, or coworkers on the regular increases the chances they might overhear you. Not only that but it’s been scientifically proven that others may begin to see you as having the same positive traits that you’re talking up about someone else.

No one ever really knows what someone else is going through, and your words may one day be the boost a person needs. At the very least, you can feel good about yourself for doing your part to be kind and to make your corner of the world a warmer, safer place.

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40-Year-Old Mother of 3 Goes From Inmate to Princeton Intern

Life can take us down unexpected and scary roads. Sometimes, we don’t know how to get off those roads and begin the climb to a better future. As this mom proved, however, anything is possible with a second chance and a little determination .

A Former Inmate

Woman goes from inmate to Princeton intern.

Mary McCrary is a 40-year-old mother of three who spent three years in prison. According to Good Morning America , she served time at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville for a parole violation following a conviction for aggravated burglary.

McCrary dropped out of high school in Grade 10 and has since successfully pursued her GED, but it wasn’t until prison that she began thinking about further education . She hit a breaking point behind bars and decided it was time to turn her life around.

“When you get to a point where you're tired and don’t even want to live and you're hopeless and you feel useless and worthless, you have a decision to make,” she told the publication.

“I made the decision to use this time to do something different, to change my life, because I didn’t want to keep doing the same things and getting in trouble and ... doing whatever I had to to survive because it gets you in the exact same place.”

So, McCrary enrolled in a coding class as part of the center’s Persevere program, an initiative aimed at helping inmates earn certifications as front-end or full-stack web developers.

“The class alone made you feel like you’re a human being, that I was working towards something, that there is a goal in sight, I am going to accomplish something, and I did,” she added. “That does give you confidence and hope.”

A Life-Changing Opportunity

For the next six months, McCrary earned her certificate in front-end coding. She decided to develop her skills even more by enrolling at Nashville State Community College, which offers a program for inmates.

This past May, McCrary was granted parole, completed her supervision, and earned extra credits toward an associate’s degree. But not even she could anticipate what would happen next: an internship at Princeton.

The nine-week program is meant for formerly incarcerated undergrad students to gain experience and new opportunities, and so far, McCrary is excelling.

“Her dedication to building her future is evident in how she does not shy away from challenges and the unknown,” Bridgett vonHoldt, an associate professor at Princeton and the head of the internship program said. “She is a role model, demonstrating for anyone who thinks such change is impossible that nothing is impossible.”

As for McCrary, she knows this is an incredible opportunity and hopes the internship is the next step toward earning her AA degree back in Nashville.

“This has been life-changing in more ways than one. This is an unbelievable, sometimes overwhelming experience,” she said. “If you look at my past, it's a crazy shamble mess, but look now, look what can happen. Nothing is ever impossible.”

Second Chances

McCrary hopes to be a role model for those who are having a hard time accepting the idea of a brighter future and so far, she certainly is. She’s a great example of how things can get better and you can change your future when you’re willing to take advantage of the opportunities you have — even if they don’t seem like opportunities at the time.

This story is also a needed reminder that everyone deserves a second chance in life and that sometimes, by allowing someone who has messed up the chance to try again, they may surprise you.

No one is perfect, and everyone stumbles. It’s not how hard we fall that truly matters in life; it's how we pick ourselves back up. But it’s also up to us whether we want to be the person who lends someone on the ground a helping hand or if we want to be the guy who just keeps on walking.

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201 Inspiring Education Quotes for Students and Teachers

Education opens up the mind, expands it and allows you to improve your life in so many ways.

So this week – as schools are starting again – I’d like to share 201 of the most motivating and inspiring quotes on education.

I hope you’ll find them helpful no matter if you’re a student that needs a boost of motivation or if you’re a teacher of any kind that wants to inspire and make a change in the lives of your students.

And if you want more inspiration check out this collection of quotes on moving forward and this one with growth mindset quotes .

Education Quotes to Motivate Students

1. “A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

2. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein

3. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo

4. “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.” Mark Twain

5. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe

6. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” Jim Rohn

7. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X

8. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” Zig Ziglar

9. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Andy McIntyre

10. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.” Carl Rogers

11. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” Mark Twain

12. “Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. “Light! Give me light!” was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.” Helen Keller

13. “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” David M. Burns

14. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” Will Durant

15. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” Wayne Dyer

16. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” Tom Bodett

17. “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” Lloyd Alexander

18. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John R. Wooden

19. “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” Abraham Maslow

20. “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Ben Franklin

21. “If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” Ludwig Wittgenstein

22. “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” John Newton 

23. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein

24. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” Maya Angelou

25. “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” Francis Bacon

26. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi

27. “Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” Jiddu Krishnamurti

28. “They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace.” Malala Yousafzai

29. “That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.” Seneca

30. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” Leonardo da Vinci

31. “Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.” James Dewar

32. “To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.” Epictetus

33. “Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” Chinese proverb

34. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” Bill Nye

35. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” Dorothy Parker

36. “Success is a poor teacher.” Robert Kiyosaki

37. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” Thomas Jefferson

38. “Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.” Robin Williams

39. “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.” Cicero

40. “Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.” Lee Iacocca

41. “Despise school and remain a fool.” German proverb

42. “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.” Bruce Lee

43. “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” Seneca

44. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” Nora Roberts

45. “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” Baruch Spinoza

46. “The learned man knows that he is ignorant.” Victor Hugo

47. “Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.” Euripides

48. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” Og Mandino

49. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” Albert Einstein

50. “Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. ” Pete Seeger

51. “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” Chinese Proverb

52. “The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow.” Naval Ravikant

53. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” Charles F. Kettering

54. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” Zig Ziglar

55. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” Jim Rohn

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Education Quotes for Teachers

56. “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” Clay P. Bedford

57. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry B Adams

58. “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

59. “To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert

60. “Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” Chinese proverb

61. “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” Alfred Mercier

62. “Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” Erich Fromm

63. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” James Baldwin

64. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer

65. “Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” Roger Lewin

66. “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

67. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” Alexandra K. Trenfor

68. “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” G.K. Chesterton

69. “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” Lady Bird Johnson

70. “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” Chinese proverb

71. “ Nine tenths of education is encouragement .” Anatole France 72. “If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” Jim Rohn

73. “The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his “mistakes.” The more a child’s work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is . And the more a teacher removes them from the child’s work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.” Franz Cizek

74. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” Goethe

75. “Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.” Claus Moser

76. “I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.“ Steve Irwin

77. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela

78. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret Mead

79. “The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice.” James Clear

80. “Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

81. “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” Plato

82. “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” Jim Henson

83. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Aristotle

84. “I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” Stanley Kubrick

85. “The more you make it easy for your kids, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning.” Maxime Lagacé

86. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” Hellen Keller

87. “All learning has an emotional base.” Plato

88. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” C.S. Lewis

89. “If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly.” Buddhist proverb

90. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” Franklin P. Jones

91. “Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it.” Walter Isaacson

92. “The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

93. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” Diogenes

94. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” Plutarch

95. “People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.” Socrates

96. “By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.” Latin proverb

97. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James

98. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” Bob Talber

99. “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” Chinese proverb

100. “Do not train children to learning by force and 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

101. “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” Maya Angelou

102. “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it.” Arnold Glasow

Quotes on the Power of Education

103. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” Epictetus

104. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” Abraham Maslow

105. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

106. “No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.” G.K. Chesterton

107. “When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.” Peter Drucker

108. “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” Gloria Steinem

109. “If a man is a fool, you don’t train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.” Desmond Bagley

110. “The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.” William R. Inge

111. “People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.” Bill Vaughan

112. “What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” Henry David Thoreau

113. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” Leo Buscaglia

114. “Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.” Edward De Bono

115. “I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.” Andy Rooney

116. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” Sydney J. Harris

117. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain

118. “What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.” Joseph Addison

119. “Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” Peter Brougham

120. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein

121. “Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” William Haley

122. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” Helen Keller

123. “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” Robert G. Ingersoll

124. “Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” Abraham Lincoln

125. “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” Buckminster Fuller

126. “Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” John Keats

127. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.“ Jim Rohn

128. “It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.” T.S. Eliot

129. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Aristotle

130. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” Robert Frost

131. “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.” John F. Kennedy

132. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Henry Ford

133.“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” Brigham Young

134. “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” Thomas Paine

135. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King

136. “When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world.” Shai Reshef

137. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” Aristotle

138. “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” Michel Legrand

139. “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” George Santayana

140. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” B.B. King

Smart and Insightful Education Quotes

In this section I’d like to share recent findings that have helped me see things in a new way when it comes to education.

I hope that these timeless thoughts will help to open up new perspectives for you too.

141. “Everything is a learning process: Any time you fall over, it’s just teaching you to stand up the next time.” Joel Edgerton

142. “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you have understood all your life, but in a new way.” Doris Lessing

143. “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” Thomas Jefferson

144. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius

145. “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Peter Drucker

146. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” Chanakya

147. “A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.” Andy Hargreaves

148. “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss

149. “The ability to read, write, and analyze; the confidence to stand up and demand justice and equality; the qualifications and connections to get your foot in the door and take your seat at the table — all of that starts with education.” Michelle Obama

150. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” Og Mandino

151. “Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.” George Weah

152. “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” Mark Twain

153. “What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.” Chuck Grassley

154. “Life is an open book test. Learning how to learn is your most valuable skill in the online world.” Marc Cuban

155. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” Roy T. Bennett

156. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” Albert Einstein

157. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey

158. “It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.” Agnes Repplierg

159. “You cannot dream of becoming something you do not know about. You have to learn to dream big. Education exposes you to what the world has to offer, to the possibilities open to you.” Sonia Sotomayor

160. “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” Walter Cronkite

161. “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” Brigham Young

162. “Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.” Claude Bernard

163. “The best education is not given to students; it is drawn out of them.” Gerald Belcher

164. “Life long learners will always be ahead of the people standing still, the people who haven’t learned many new things in the past 10 years. So keep on learning because that makes it easier to advance in your career, remedy relationship issues and to grow older in a smart way. Plus, it most often makes life more exciting.” Rip Miller

165. “Do not conform your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.” Hebrew Proverb

166. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin

167. “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” Kofi Annan

168. “All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.” Denis Waitley

169. “In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.” Barack Obama

170. “It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.” Cormac McCarthy

171. “Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” John Holt

172. “They know enough who know how to learn.” Henry Adams

173. “You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Short Quotes About Education

Finally, a few handfuls of short, sharp and punchy education quotes. The ones that cut right to the point.

I hope you’ll find something that refuels or relights your motivation here.

174. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.“ Malcolm Forbes

175. “Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities.” Nelson Mandela

176. “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” Muriel Spark

177. “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” George Evans

178. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats

179. “Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.” Dr. W. Edwards Deming

180. “By seeking and blundering we learn.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

181. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” Herbert Spencer

182. “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” John Hersey

183. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.” Brian Tracy

184. “Education is the great engine to personal development.” Nelson Mandela

185. “All real education is the architecture of the soul.” William Bennett

186. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” Albert Einstein

187. “The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth” Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

188. “Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life.” W.E.B Du Bois

189. “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” Alexander the Great

190. “All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” Martin Fisher

191. “We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.” Peter De Vries

192. “I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.” Steven Wright

193. “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” William S. Burroughs

194. “Learning without thought is a labor lost, thought without learning is perilous.” Confucius

195. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” Socrates

196. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai

197. “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.“ Albert Einstein

198. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” Edward Everett

199. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver

200. “A good education is a foundation for a better future.” Elizabeth Warren

201. “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” Conrad Hall

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131 Life-Changing Inspirational Education Quotes To Ignite Your Learning Journey

Welcome to our curated collection of 131 Life-Changing Inspirational Education Quotes designed to ignite your learning journey.

Education is the cornerstone of personal growth, societal progress, and the cultivation of a brighter future.

In this blog post, we’ve gathered a diverse array of inspirational quotes from renowned thinkers, educators, and leaders across the globe.

Whether you’re a student embarking on a quest for knowledge, a teacher shaping young minds, a parent guiding your children, or simply someone who cherishes the transformative power of learning, these quotes are sure to resonate deeply with you.

From motivating words that encourage perseverance to insightful reflections on the importance of education, each quote serves as a beacon of inspiration, guiding you through the enriching landscape of lifelong learning.

So, let’s embark together on this enlightening journey, drawing wisdom and motivation from these powerful words.

Explore our collection and let these quotes fuel your passion for education, propelling you towards greater heights of intellectual fulfillment and personal development.

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1. “Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.” — Bill Gates

2. “I’ve always been a huge proponent for education; I graduated high school at 14 years old and graduated college at 17 years old.” — Katherine McNamara

3. “Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.” — Ernie Fletcher

4. “As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid’s grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.” — Bill O’Reilly

5. “Developing countries need to commit additional resources and have the political will to improve education.” — Julia Gillard

6. “I don’t think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.” — Wilma Mankiller

7. “I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

8. “We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don’t think that’s what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind.” — Tara Westover

9. “The promotion of international tolerance, reconciliation and education for which we must work are, in my view, of paramount importance in order to build a balanced world showing solidarity.” — Albert II, Prince of Monaco

10. “Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity… and these in turn rely on the education of our people.” — Julia Gillard

11. “It was strange: I never had an interest in school because from an early age I knew the only thing I wanted to do was to play music! So I didn’t feel so bad not going into school when I was supposed to be there – why do I need Latin, geography, physical education, etc., and to get beaten on a daily basis?” — Andy Rourke

12. “I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up because – well, at least where I grew up – it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.” — Ryan Gosling

13. “Education gives girls the knowledge, experience, and confidence to play their rightful role in society.” — Tedros Adhanom

14. “Our growing national debt is a threat to our national defense and to our domestic priorities, including research and development, education, health care, and investments in our economic growth.” — Seth Moulton

15. “Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?” — Beah Richards

16. “An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.” — Anatole France

17. “With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can’t always hear a parent when he says: ‘I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,’ or, ‘I want my child to shake hands firmly,’ or, ‘I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.’” — Amity Shlaes

18. “A dynamic economy begins with a good education.” — Bob Taft

19. “I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the ‘Post.’ This was my education.” — Jerry Della Femina

20. “At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.” — Sebastian Thrun

21. “Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” — Plato

22. “I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.” — Xenophon

23. “The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the old economy. As a result, many high-skilled, high-paying industries suffer from a shortage of labor, while too many low-paying industries suffer from a surplus.” — Marco Rubio

24. “Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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25. “I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they’re not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.” — Earl Campbell

26. “Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.” — Maria Montessori

27. “A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.” — David Horowitz

28. “The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.” — W. E. B. Du Bois

29. “Communities do need police, but law enforcement needs to be much more transparent and held accountable for their actions. We also need increased resources for mental health services, affordable housing, education, jobs training, and much more to truly address social and economic issues in our communities.” — Sharice Davids

30. “I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” — Walt Disney

31. “Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.” — Kofi Annan

32. “Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.” — Jordan Peterson

33. “Education is possibility set in motion.” — Jill Biden

34. “As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.” — Sue Kelly

35. “We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

36. “Social incubators not only create economic impact but also have impact in other sectors, such as healthcare, education, and the environment. As the number of social incubation programs increase in the global incubation sector, there is a greater need to help programs improve and help others start.” — Tae Yoo

37. “My dad didn’t have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in ‘Harvest,’ I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.” — Jim Crace

38. “I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.” — Felix Bloch

39. “Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.” — John Ruskin

40. “The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.” — Bob Riley

41. “Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.” — Patrice Motsepe

42. “The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body… is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

43. “An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.” — Alan K. Simpson

44. “Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.” — Robert Frost

45. “We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It’s also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.” — Roy Romer

46. “You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.” — Ravi Zacharias

47. “For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.” — Thomas Frank

48. “I’ve put all the hours in and there’s a depth to my education. There are a couple of brain cells in there, more than you might expect of a 6ft 1in ginger skinhead.” — Sean Dyche

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49. “The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new – and sometimes unexpected – directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.” — Drew Gilpin Faust

50. “Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.” — Phyllis Schlafly

51. “I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.” — Michelle Obama

52. “Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.” — John Agyekum Kufuor

53. “Crippling student loan debt doesn’t just affect those who took out loans to get an education. It harms all of us because we can’t have a healthy economy without a strong middle class to stimulate it.” — Ana Kasparian

54. “Toronto is a world-class city. You don’t have a debate here about immigration because you need it to just maintain your pensions: that’s dependent on people coming in to fund that. And again, I don’t want to be controversial, but I think the average education level in Canada is probably higher than in the United States.” — Shahid Khan

55. “I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.” — Jacqueline Novogratz

56. “That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.” — Solomon Asch

57. “In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.” — Camille Paglia

58. “The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.” — Nicholas Kristof

59. “I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!” — Erin Gruwell

60. “To Mahatma Gandhi, the key to India’s progress was the development of its villages. In his unified vision, education, agriculture, village industry, social reform all came together to provide the basis for a vibrant rural society free from exploitation and linked to the urban centres as equals. Our planning incorporates this basic insight.” — Rajiv Gandhi

61. “That’s the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.” — Erin Gruwell

62. “In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.” — Queen Rania of Jordan

63. “The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don’t necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.” — Bill Rancic

64. “Energy, health care and education are just three examples of areas in which information and information management are critically important. How are we using our energy? What appliances in homes or business are consuming the most energy? When do they consume it? Can the load be shifted? How efficient are these devices?” — Vint Cerf

65. “The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.” — Mortimer Adler

66. “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” — William Inge

67. “Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.” — Kristen Soltis Anderson

68. “Public education is an investment in our future.” — Matt Blunt

69. “One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.” — Christine Gregoire

70. “No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.” — Brad Henry

71. “I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.” — Ann Cotton

72. “Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.” — John Sununu

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73. “The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.” — Jared Polis

74. “Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.” — Miriam Defensor-Santiago

75. “Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.” — Bobby Unser

76. “Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long run, I think Google has a role to play in helping to assemble relevant content for classroom use.” — Vint Cerf

77. “The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn’t teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.” — Sherry Turkle

78. “I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.” — George Lucas

79. “Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.” — Paulo Freire

80. “When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.” — Ai Weiwei

81. “Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.” — Rutherford B. Hayes

82. “Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.” — Bob Beauprez

83. “We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on.” — Rod McKuen

84. “My well-meaning parents decided to send me to a Catholic grade school to get a better education than I probably would have received at the local public school. They had no way of knowing that the school nuns, who were the majority of the teachers at this particular parochial school, were right-wing, card-carrying John Birch Society members.” — Jim Starlin

85. “A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.” — Norman Cousins

86. “Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal ’10 to 5′ job and put my education to good use.” — Soha Ali Khan

87. “The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.” — John Dewey

88. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” — Robert Frost

89. “By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation’s prosperity for generations yet unborn.” — Elijah Cummings

90. “I made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.” — Chuck Schumer

91. “The education of women is the best way to save the environment.” — E. O. Wilson

92. “Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.” — Angela Davis

93. “The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.” — Muhammad Yunus

94. “With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you’ve got in Africa now and like you’ve got in Haiti. So what we’re talking about is there has to be an educational program. That’s very important.” — Fred Hampton

95. “I cannot live without books.” — Thomas Jefferson

96. “This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.” — Gareth Thomas

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97. “The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.” — John Dickey

98. “Health care is not a privilege. It’s a right. It’s a right as fundamental as civil rights. It’s a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.” — Rod Blagojevich

99. “I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it’s The Dark Ages?” — Sheryl Lee Ralph

100. “Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can’t use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.” — Bjorn Lomborg

101. “There is no education like adversity.” — Benjamin Disraeli

102. “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.” — Brigham Young

103. “For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and it’s really tough.” — Liam Neeson

104. “Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.” — Henry Adams

105. “In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.” — Michel de Montaigne

106. “People say Malala’s voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala’s voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala’s voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women’s rights, and peace.” — Malala Yousafzai

107. “The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.” — Aldous Huxley

108. “My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father’s brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.” — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

109. “There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.” — John T. Walton

110. “I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.” — Jason Kilar

111. “Education is the key to a bright future.” — Vaani Kapoor

112. “If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” — Jim Rohn

113. “America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.” — Will Rogers

114. “Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.” — W. E. B. Du Bois

115. “It is difficult to think of a major industry that AI will not transform. This includes healthcare, education, transportation, retail, communications, and agriculture. There are surprisingly clear paths for AI to make a big difference in all of these industries.” — Andrew Ng

116. “How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.” — Elizabeth Warren

117. “Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.” — Bill Frist

118. “We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

119. “Nobody would deny that if someone was a billionaire in 1962, his billions are going to affect all of his descendants. The reverse is also true. The lack of education, material, and finances for a slave are going to affect the descendants of that individual as well.” — Lecrae

120. “Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.” — Aldo Leopold

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121. “To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.” — John Ruskin

122. “Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.” — Charles Handy

123. “The key to education is the experience of beauty.” — Friedrich Schiller

124. “We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.” — Donald Evans

125. “Our education system has succeeded so far in teaching generations to do different routine tasks. So when tractors displaced farming labor, we taught the next generation to work in factories. But what we’ve never really been good at is teaching a huge number of people to do non-routine creative work.” — Andrew Ng

126. “Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world’s education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.” — Wendy Kopp

127. “The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.” — George Lucas

128. “Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” — Mark Twain

129. “Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.” — John Ruskin

130. “Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It’s the federal government and the Justice Department. It’s a fraud; it’s a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.” — James Meredith

131. “Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.” — Noam Chomsky

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Education is not merely a process of acquiring knowledge but a transformative journey that shapes our minds, hearts, and futures.

Whether you’re a student navigating the complexities of learning, a teacher guiding others on their educational path, a parent nurturing the growth of your children, or simply an individual who values the pursuit of knowledge, these quotes remind us of the boundless potential within each of us.

Let us continue to celebrate the joy of learning, embrace the challenges with resilience, and strive for excellence in all endeavors. May these uplifting words of wisdom continue to inspire and encourage learners of all ages, fostering a world where education serves as a beacon of hope and empowerment for generations to come.

Remember, as Nelson Mandela aptly said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Let us wield this weapon wisely and embark on our journey towards a brighter tomorrow.

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What issues have the potential to define—or re define—education in the year ahead? Is there a next “big thing” that could shift the K-12 experience or conversation?

These were the questions Education Week set out to answer in this second annual “10 Big Ideas in Education” report.

You can read about last year’s ideas here . In 2019, though, things are different.

This year, we asked Education Week reporters to read the tea leaves and analyze what was happening in classrooms, school districts, and legislatures across the country. What insights could reporters offer practitioners for the year ahead?

Some of the ideas here are speculative. Some are warning shots, others more optimistic. But all 10 of them here have one thing in common: They share a sense of urgency.

Accompanied by compelling illustrations and outside perspectives from leading researchers, advocates, and practitioners, this year’s Big Ideas might make you uncomfortable, or seem improbable. The goal was to provoke and empower you as you consider them.

Let us know what you think, and what big ideas matter to your classroom, school, or district. Tweet your comments with #K12BigIdeas .

No. 1: Kids are right. School is boring.

Out-of-school learning is often more meaningful than anything that happens in a classroom, writes Kevin Bushweller, the Executive Editor of EdWeek Market Brief. His essay tackling the relevance gap is accompanied by a Q&A with advice on nurturing, rather than stifling students’ natural curiosity. Read more.

No. 2: Teachers have trust issues. And it’s no wonder why.

Many teachers may have lost faith in the system, says Andrew Ujifusa, but they haven’t lost hope. The Assistant Editor unpacks this year’s outbreak of teacher activism. And read an account from a disaffected educator on how he built a coalition of his own. Read more.

No. 3: Special education is broken.

Forty years since students with disabilities were legally guaranteed a public school education, many still don’t receive the education they deserve, writes Associate Editor Christina A. Samuels. Delve into her argument and hear from a disability civil rights pioneer on how to create an equitable path for students. Read more.

No. 4: Schools are embracing bilingualism, but only for some students.

Staff Writer Corey Mitchell explains the inclusion problem at the heart of bilingual education. His essay includes a perspective from a researcher on dismantling elite bilingualism. Read more.

No. 5: A world without annual testing may be closer than you think.

There’s agreement that we have a dysfunctional standardized-testing system in the United States, Associate Editor Stephen Sawchuk writes. But killing it would come with some serious tradeoffs. Sawchuk’s musing on the alternatives to annual tests is accompanied by an argument for more rigorous classroom assignments by a teacher-practice expert. Read more.

No. 6: There are lessons to be learned from the educational experiences of black students in military families.

Drawing on his personal experience growing up in an Air Force family, Staff Writer Daarel Burnette II highlights emerging research on military-connected students. Learn more about his findings and hear from two researchers on what a new ESSA mandate means for these students. Read more.

No. 7: School segregation is not an intractable American problem.

Racial and economic segregation remains deeply entrenched in American schools. Staff Writer Denisa R. Superville considers the six steps one district is taking to change that. Her analysis is accompanied by an essay from the president of the American Educational Research Association on what is perpetuating education inequality. Read more.

No. 8: Consent doesn’t just belong in sex ed. class. It needs to start a lot earlier.

Assistant Editor Sarah D. Sparks looked at the research on teaching consent and found schools and families do way too little, way too late. Her report is partnered with a researcher’s practical guide to developmentally appropriate consent education. Read more.

No. 9: Education has an innovation problem.

Are education leaders spending too much time chasing the latest tech trends to maintain what they have? Staff Writer Benjamin Herold explores the innovation trap. Two technologists offer three tips for putting maintenance front and center in school management. Read more.

No. 10: There are two powerful forces changing college admissions.

Some colleges are rewriting the admissions script for potential students. Senior Contributing Writer Catherine Gewertz surveys this changing college admissions landscape. Her insights are accompanied by one teacher’s advice for navigating underserved students through the college application process. Read more.

Wait, there’s more.

Want to know what educators really think about innovation? A new Education Week Research Center survey delves into what’s behind the common buzzword for teachers, principals, and district leaders. Take a look at the survey results.

A version of this article appeared in the January 09, 2019 edition of Education Week as What’s on the Horizon for 2019?

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1. “education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” – nelson mandela.

Nelson Mandela. Arquivo/ABr , CC BY 3.0 BR , via Wikimedia Commons

2. “Apply Yourself. Get All The Education You Can, But Then, By God, Do Something. Don’t Just Stand There, Make It Happen” – Lee Iacocca

3. “intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education” – martin luther king jr..

Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Foundation , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

4. “The Object Of Education Is To Prepare The Young To Educate Themselves Throughout Their Lives” – Robert M. Hutchins

5. “the roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet” – aristotle.

Aristotle. Rembrandt , CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

6. “Education Is Simply The Soul Of A Society As It Passes From One Generation To Another” – G.K. Chesterton

7. “education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know” – daniel j. boorstin.

Daniel J. Boorstin. https://www.loc.gov/loc/legacy/librs.html , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

8. “The Highest Result Of Education Is Tolerance” – Helen Keller

9. “children must be taught how to think, not what to think” – margaret mead.

Dr Margaret Mead. Unknown photographer , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

10. “The Beautiful Thing About Learning Is Nobody Can Take It Away From You” – B.B. King

11. “develop a passion for learning. if you do, you will never cease to grow” – anthony j. d’angelo, 12. “the roots of education sre bitter, but the fruit is sweet” – aristotle, 13. “give me a place to stand, and i shall move the earth (δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω)” – archimedes, 14. “education is not preparation for life; education is life itself” – john dewey.

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15. “The Aim Of Education Is The Knowledge, Not Of Facts, But Of Values” – William S. Burroughs

16. “do you know the difference between education and experience education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t” – pete seeger.

Pete Seeger. Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

17. “Education Is The Passport To The Future, For Tomorrow Belongs To Those Who Prepare For It Today” – Malcolm X

Malcolm X. Marion S. Trikosko , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

18. “The Whole Purpose Of Education Is To Turn Mirrors Into Windows” – Sydney J. Harris

19. “change is the end result of all true learning” – leo buscaglia.

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20. “Education Is The Ability To Listen To Almost Anything Without Losing Your Temper” – Robert Frost

Robert Frost Walter Albertin, World Telegram staff photographer , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

21. “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” – John Dewey

22. “education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another” – g.k. chesterton.

G.K. Chesterton. See page for author , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

23. “Real Education Should Educate Us Out Of Self Into Something Far Finer; Into A Selflessness Which Links Us With All Humanity” – Nancy Astor

Nancy Astor. Lallie Charles , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

24. “Children Have To Be Educated, But They Have Also To Be Left To Educate Themselves” – Ernest Dimnet

25. “the object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher” – elbert hubbard.

Elbert Hubbard. Aalejandro1995 , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

26. “Education Is The Kindling Of A Flame, Not The Filling Of A Vessel” – Socrates

27. “formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – jim rohn.

Jim Rohn. Tajul Islam Apurbo , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

28. “The Illiterate Of The Future Will Not Be The Person Who Cannot Read. It Will Be The Person Who Does Not Know How To Learn” – Alvin Toffler

29. “education is not received. it is achieved” – albert einstein.

Albert Einstein Photograph by Orren Jack Turner, Princeton, N.J. Modified with Photoshop by PM_Poon and later by Dantadd. , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

30. “Education: The Path From Cocky Ignorance To Miserable Uncertainty.” – Mark Twain

31. “education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a cleverer devil” – c.s. lewis.

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32. “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

33. “people are not born with prejudices. they learn them from the people close to them” – mathew knowles, 34. “the mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled” – plutarch, 35. “the aim of education should be to teach us how to think rather than what to think” – james bryant conant.

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36. “The Mind Once Enlightened Cannot Again Become Dark” – Thomas Paine

37. “i never let my schooling interfere with my education” – mark twain.

Mark Twain. See page for author , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

38. “Intellectual Growth Should Commence At Birth And Cease Only At Death” – Albert Einstein

39. “i think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker” – stanley kubrick.

Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

40. “You’ll Never Achieve Real Success Unless You Like What You’re Doing” – Maya Angelou

41. “what does education often do it makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook” – henry david thoreau.

Henry David Thoreau. Geo. F. Parlow. , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

42. “Education Is The Ability To Meet Life’s Situations.” – Benjamin Franklin

43. “tell me and i forget. teach me and i remember. involve me and i learn” ― benjamin franklin.

Benjamin Franklin. David Martin , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

44. “An Investment In Knowledge Pays The Best Interest” – Benjamin Franklin

45. “education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a cleverer devil” – c.s. lewis, 46. “education consists mainly of what we have unlearned” – mark twain, 47. “develop a passion for learning. if you do, you will never cease to grow.” – anthony j. d’angelo, 48. “education breeds confidence. confidence breeds hope. hope breeds peace” – confucius, 49. “learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere” – chinese proverb, 50. “education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think” – albert einstein.

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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

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At a stanford forum, taking a closer look at controversies over curriculum.

America’s culture wars are playing out in the classroom, with near-daily headlines about attacks on school curriculum. Just about every subject has come under political fire, from math and reading to American history and gender studies.

Dozens of states have recently acted to limit how race and issues of racism can be discussed in schools. Efforts to reform math face backlash from both the right and the left. The so-called “reading wars” pit advocates of different approaches to teaching literacy against one another. On the heels of Florida’s 2022 “Don’t Say Gay” law, lawmakers across the country are pushing bills to limit public schools from addressing sexual orientation or gender identity. Book banning has surged to a level the American Library Association calls “unprecedented.”

Kahdeidra Monét Martin, a postdoctoral scholar at the GSE, poses a question to panelists about the politicization of language in debates over curriculum. (Photo: Ryan Zhang)

To dig more deeply into these controversies and more, Stanford students, faculty, and community members gathered for “Contentious Curriculum,” a two-part forum led by the Graduate School of Education (GSE) on March 7 and 8. The event, held at the Center for Education Research at Stanford, featured talks by GSE faculty and a town-hall dialogue about the past, present, and possible future of conflicts over curriculum. 

Mitchell Stevens , a sociologist and professor at the GSE, organized the event along with Jennifer Wolf , a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate programs at the GSE; Peter Williamson , an associate professor and former faculty director for the Stanford Teacher Education Program ; and GSE doctoral student Abigail Miller.

“GSE faculty are frequently called upon to write and review curriculum. We advise education officials. We train future teachers,” said Stevens. “It seemed incumbent on us to take these current curricular conflicts seriously – and to provide support for one another, as education professionals who are often at the front lines.”

Conditions for controversy

Conflicts over curriculum are nothing new, dating back at least a century to what’s commonly referred to as the “Scopes Monkey Trial,” a 1925 case contesting the legality of teaching evolution in science classes in Tennessee schools. What makes school curriculum such a flashpoint for controversy? 

For one thing, said Stevens, the curriculum represents what’s considered “official” knowledge – and it can’t contain everything. 

“Every single curricular decision is an act of exclusion,” he said. “Some stories, some facts, some concepts will be made central, even compulsory. Many others will be excluded.” The need to limit curriculum content, even if only to accommodate the time constraints of the school year, creates conditions ripe for conflict, he said. 

Another factor is the lack of a centralized authority determining what U.S. schools teach, said Stevens. There are more than 16,000 school districts in the United States, each charged with making their own decisions about curriculum. “The sheer scale and distributed character of American K-12 education means there are a lot of places where conflict can happen,” he said.

The religious nature of the United States – and its religious plurality – also contributes to the emergence of these conflicts, Stevens said. A 2018 survey  found that 40 percent of Americans felt the Christian Bible doesn't have enough influence on American culture. “But another quarter say the Bible has too much influence on American culture,” he said. “So [we] have strong beliefs about the importance of certain Biblical texts on both sides.”

Some conflict can be attributed to the fact that schools and families are both legally responsible for children, he said. Ideally, parents’ and teachers’ ideas of their children’s best interests coincide – but that’s not always the case. What’s more, Americans have historically tended to be more distrustful of public authorities than their counterparts in other countries, Stevens said. “To the extent that families and schools share responsibility for the tasks of raising children, you have a built-in condition for conflict.”

GSE Assistant Professor Michael Hines said that while historically marginalized groups have gained more of a place in the curriculum, it has been in ways that leave “the fundamental assumptions of the grand narrative of American history in place.” (Photo: Ryan Zhang)

Competing visions for the future

Michael Hines , an assistant professor at the GSE who teaches courses on the history of education in the United States and the history of African American education, spoke on the enduring politicization of the American classroom and curriculum. 

The public school system has long served, he said, as “the mechanism through which societies reproduce themselves”– a role that makes schools a place where competing visions for the future are created and contested. He pointed to one example of schools becoming a battleground for competing visions: the Freedmen’s schools, built in the aftermath of the Civil War to educate formerly enslaved adults and children in the American South.

“The freed people saw education as a tool to protect their freedom and to secure the political and economic equality that would make that status meaningful,” he said. “White Southerners saw those same schools and curricula as a means of limiting and forestalling Black aspirations, and tying formerly enslaved people to a continued role as exploited labor. And white Northerners saw the schools as an opportunity to fill the roles of their various missionary societies and to prove themselves as Christian philanthropists – a goal that ultimately had little to do with supporting Black freedom.”

Curricular controversies largely revolve around perceived threats to the dominant narrative of American history, he said – which might lead to a “bargain” in which minoritized groups gain more of a place in the curriculum, “but only in ways that largely leave the fundamental assumptions of the grand narrative of American history in place.” Key figures or events might be added to textbooks, often physically separated in the text itself – addressed in color-coded boxes or a list of supplemental readings, he noted – “a clear indication that they’re not part of the central story.” 

Debates over curriculum tend to focus on the content of what’s taught – who is represented, and the values and beliefs that are conveyed. Alfredo Artiles , the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at the GSE, called for expanding the debate to consider who gets access to the content deemed “worthy.” 

“We classify folks, and then we decide they need certain things by nature of their condition,” said Artiles, whose work focuses on the intersection of disability with areas such as race, gender, language, and social class.

Despite significant progress in addressing the needs of students with disabilities, “we need to follow the classifications and the consequences,” Artiles said. “The assumptions we make in categorizing students is that [students with disabilities] require specialized interventions, and that we should be deploying very distinctive curricular differentiations to them.” 

Patricia Bromley , an associate professor at both the GSE and the Doerr School of Sustainability, shared findings from her research into history, civics, and social studies textbooks from around the world dating back to the 1800s.

Most textbook content is not contested, she said; changes observed over time are primarily driven by an evolution in the culture more broadly. “When that shifts,” she said, “we have uncontested changes.” 

Textbooks also appear to be less subject to change than other kinds of curricula. “They're somewhat insulated from politics in a way that school boards are not,” she said, because of the time-consuming and costly nature of the textbook production system. 

“It's empowering for each generation that has to engage in this struggle, because that is where the education is actually happening,” said Priya Satia, a professor of history at Stanford, during the town-hall dialogue. (Photo: Ryan Zhang)

The agency of teachers

In a case study on book banning, Wolf and Williamson walked participants through the events following a Tennessee school board’s 10-1 decision to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Maus from the eighth-grade social studies curriculum last year.

“About 12 days [after the decision], the local paper, the Tennessee Holler , broke the story,” said Wolf. “They had to push hard to get the minutes from the school board meeting. But they broke the story, and then it took off on social media.” The book became so popular after the controversy that it quickly topped best-seller lists and sold out nationwide, prompting a new print run. Meanwhile, a Tennessee pastor in the same county responded by livestreaming a book burning on YouTube, destroying copies of Maus and other books deemed objectionable. 

With conflicts playing out at the district level and beyond, the panelists spoke to the role and agency of teachers themselves. 

“Teachers sit at the heart of this,” said Hines, a former middle-school teacher whose 2022 book, A Worthy Piece of Work , tells the story of a teacher whose groundbreaking Black history curriculum was adopted by the Chicago Public Schools in the 1940s. “No matter what curriculum comes down the pike, teachers are teachers. My mom, who was a fifth-grade math teacher, always told me: ‘I just close my door and teach.’ ”

Stevens hoped the two-night forum provided “some tools for making sense of the ubiquity of these conflicts in American life” and sparked further discussion, he said. “As educators, scholars, and teachers of teachers, it’s important for the GSE to keep these conversations going.”

This forum was supported by the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society; GSE programs in Policy, Organization and Leadership Studies (POLS) and International and Comparative Education (ICE), the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP); the Center for Comparative Studies of Race & Ethnicity; and the Stanford Education and Humanities Workshop.

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• A new report indicates half of Americans feel parents and teachers should have the most control over curriculum for high school and elementary school students.
• 3 in 4 support teaching pro-choice and pro-life positions to high schoolers, but only 1 in 5 feel it is appropriate for elementary school students.
• 96% of Americans report not knowing enough about critical race theory (CRT) to explain it to others.
• Half of Republicans and 40% of Democrats neither support nor oppose teaching CRT in K-12 schools.

Like many,  Anna Saavedra  and  Morgan Polikoff  saw the viral videos of fiery school board meetings over curriculum topics. They also read reports of policymakers pushing legislation to incorporate — or remove — certain material from classrooms and articles describing parents pulling their children out of lessons concerning issues like race, sex and gender identity.

“We wondered whether the loud voices and limiting legislation were representative of people’s views throughout the country,” says Saavedra, a behavioral scientist at the  Center for Economic and Social Research  (CESR), based at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

So, Saavedra and Polikoff, associate professor of education at the  USC Rossier School of Education  and a CESR Fellow, co-authored “A House Divided? What Americans Really Think About Controversial Topics in Schools.” It includes findings from a nationally representative survey of nearly 3,800 U.S. adults, conducted in August and September, regarding Americans’ feelings about potentially contentious content entering the nation’s classrooms.

“There’s a lot of bluster about these issues but not much data on how people think about them,” says Polikoff. “We wanted to provide a baseline understanding of American sentiment.”

Among the report’s notable findings:

• Americans support some controversial topics in high school classrooms

There is consensus among American adults that U.S. high schools should teach multiple sides of controversial topics and make books featuring such content accessible. For example, three out of four adults say high school students should learn about pro-choice and pro-life positions.

“This is a strong indicator the American public want the next generation to be educated and informed on complex issues,” says Saavedra.

This desire to present some controversial topics holds true in the elementary school setting, with widespread support for teaching younger children how to think critically and introducing material related to slavery, racial inequality and the contributions of marginalized groups.

But when it comes to sharing information about sex and sexuality with younger students, parents are less enthused. Only 21% say pro-choice or pro-life content should appear in elementary schools.

Adults particularly frowned on the LGBTQ-themed books and books containing profanity for elementary and high school students. About 60% felt high school students should not be assigned books on LGBTQ topics, and more than 75% said the same for elementary students. Just over 60% felt books with profanity should not be assigned to high school students and a whopping 91% indicated younger students should not be exposed to profanity in books.

• Regardless of political affiliation, few understand critical race theory and confusion abounds regarding its place in U.S. classrooms

While critical race theory, or CRT, has captured headlines, few Americans understand the technical academic theory. Only 4%, in fact, say they know enough to explain it to others.

Though 36 states have introduced 138 bills designed to restrict education about racism, inequity, bias and structural injustices this year alone, the lack of knowledge about CRT and its central tenets leaves most Americans unsure about its place in school curriculums.

“Despite being a hot-button political issue in some communities and the focus of tremendous media coverage, there is widespread confusion about CRT and what it actually is,” says Saavedra. “Almost half the Republicans and half the Democrats indicated they had little or no knowledge of the topic.”

Despite being equally ill informed, Democrats and Republicans differ sharply on whether or not CRT should be taught in K-12 schools; 40% of Democrats support it and 55% of Republicans oppose it. A large number from both parties are much more ambivalent; 40% of Republicans and 50% of Democrats neither support nor oppose teaching CRT.

Notably on the topic of race, Americans agree that society’s goal should be equal treatment of people without regard for race. The majority of respondents also support students learning about the experiences of people of color, slavery and civil rights.

“Recognizing the U.S. as a diverse, multicultural society, there’s an understanding across party lines that students need to learn about racial issues,” Polikoff says.

• Most Americans think teachers and parents should drive curriculum

Many Americans are unsure what topics are taught in K-12 schools — approximately half don’t know if the hot-button topics of gender identity and racial inequality are discussed in high school classrooms. Even so, most favored teachers and parents holding more control over curriculum than they currently do.

Almost 70% of respondents perceive school boards or school and district leaders to have the greatest influence over curriculum, with parents (27%) slotting in behind teachers (34%) and state leaders (38%). But nearly half of respondents would prefer for parents and teachers to exert the most influence.

Opinions regarding parental influence differed sharply, however, by party affiliation. Less than a third of Democrats want parents to exert the most control over curriculum while 63% of Republicans ranked parents as their first or second choice to control what’s taught in schools. Who wants teachers to decide on school curriculum? More than half of Democrats ranked them as their first or second choice, compared to just 43% of Republicans.

A majority of Americans from all racial/ethnic, income and education groups support parents’ ability to opt their children out of lessons featuring content with which they disagree.

Moving ahead

Given the significant role public schools play in American society, Polikoff and Saavedra hope the survey’s results serve as a launch pad for additional studies about perceptions and opinions regarding education.

“Though there are some lingering sharp divides, there are also some significant areas of agreement that haven’t been highlighted before and that offer hope for more productive conversations ahead,” Saavedra says.

Polikoff, meanwhile, sees opportunity for the report’s findings to inform policy and cultivate more responsive schools.

Supported by funding from the Hewlett Foundation, “A House Divided?” was authored by Polikoff, Saavedra and CESR researchers  Daniel Silver ,  Amie Rapaport  and  Marshall Garland .

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50 Inspirational Education Quotes to Spark a Love of Learning

Welcome to our collection of education quotes, where we have gathered some of the most enlightening and thought-provoking words on the topic of learning and education. These quotes come from some of the most renowned educators, philosophers, and leaders in history, and they offer valuable insights and wisdom on the importance of education and its role in shaping our lives.

Education is not just about acquiring knowledge and skills, but it’s also about developing critical thinking, creativity, and the ability to navigate through life’s challenges. These quotes cover a wide range of topics related to education, such as the power of learning, the importance of curiosity, and the role of education in personal and societal growth.

These quotes remind us of the importance of lifelong learning and the role it plays in shaping our minds and our future. They encourage us to never stop learning and to always strive for self-improvement. Whether you’re a student, a teacher, or just someone who is passionate about learning, we hope that these quotes will inspire you to continue on your journey of education and personal growth.

Education Quotes

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” – Albert Einstein

“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” – Robert M. Hutchins

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” – Carl Rogers

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

“Education is not the key to success, education is the key to change.” – Will Smith

“The true test of education is not how much you know, but how you feel and act.” – Unknown

“Education is not a destination, it’s a journey.” – Unknown

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. – Albert Einstein

The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”– Dr. Seuss

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan

“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” – Mark Twain

“Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” – Chinese proverb

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” ― Robert Frost

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ― Aristotle

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” – Bill Nye

“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” – Conrad Hall

“Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.” ― Anton Chekhov

“A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ― Jim Rohn

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” ― Michel Legrand

“Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.” – Hebrew Proverb

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” ― Malala Yousafzai

“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” – George Evans

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” – Voltaire

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”― Albert Einstein

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

“Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. – Shakuntala Devi

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” — Henry Ford

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” ― B.B. King

“All things good to know are difficult to learn.” – Greek proverb

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William Burroughs

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” – Epictetus

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

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150 Inspiring Quotes About Education And Learning

Explore, enjoy and get motivated from the best education and learning quotes from the famous and brilliant people.

Best Quotes on Education

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” – Nelson Mandela

 “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

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever” – Mahatma Gandhi

“A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity” – Dorothy Parker

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo

“If You are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people” – Chinese Proverb

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer” – Albert Einstein

“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.” -Mark Twain

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself” – Chinese Proverb

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” – Benjamin Franklin

 “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” -Buckminster Fuller

“The highest result of education is tolerance” – Hellen Keller

Education quotes to inspire and teach

 “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you” – B. B. King

 “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” -Jim Rohn

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another” – G.K. Chesterton

 “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” -Malcolm X

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows” – Sydney J. Harris

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 “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” -Zig Ziglar

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education” – Martin Luther King

  “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” -Andy McIntyre

“When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world” – Shai Reshef

 “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.” -Carl Rogers

“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” -David M. Burns

Education quotes about reading

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” -Wayne Dyer

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” -Lloyd Alexander

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” -John R. Wooden

“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backwards into safety.” – Abraham Maslow

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Ben Frankli n

“If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” -John Newton

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” -Jim Rohn

“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” -Clay P. Bedford

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” -Henry B Adams

“To teach is to learn twice.” -Joseph Joubert

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” -Alfred Mercier

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” -Erich Fromm

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” -James Baldwin

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” -Albert Schweitzer

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” -Roger Lewin

“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

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” -G.K. Chesterton

“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” -Lady Bird Johnson

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“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” -Chinese proverb

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.” -Anatole France

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” -Jim Rohn

“The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his “mistakes.” The more a child’s work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child’s work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.” -Franz Cizek

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” -Goethe

“Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.” -Claus Moser

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.“ -Steve Irwin

“Do not train children to learn by force and 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

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” -Maya Angelou

“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it.” -Arnold Glasow

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” -Epictetus

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” -Abraham Maslow

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.” -G.K. Chesterton

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” -Gloria Steinem

“If a man is a fool, you don’t train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.” -Desmond Bagley

“The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class because they do not realize how little they know.” -William R. Inge

“People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.” -Bill Vaughan

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“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” -Henry David Thoreau

“Change is the end result of all true learning.” -Leo Buscaglia

“Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.” -Edward De Bono

“I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.” -Andy Rooney

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” -Sydney J. Harris

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” -Mark Twain

“What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.” -Joseph Addison

wise education quotes

“Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” -Peter Brougham

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” -Albert Einstein

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” -William Haley

“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” -Helen Keller

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” -Robert G. Ingersoll

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” -Buckminster Fuller

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.“ -Jim Rohn

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” -Michel Legrand

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. –   Benjamin Franklin

Change is the end result of all true learning. – Leo Buscaglia

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X

Education is the need of tomorrow Quotes

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle

education quotes about its fruits

The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

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“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” -John Keats

“The learning process continues until the day you die.” – Kirk Douglas

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ― W.B. Yeats

“Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” -Abraham Lincoln

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. – John Dewey

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. – Kofi Annan

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. – Mark Twain

Quotes About Education and information

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – Edward Everett

They know enough who know how to learn. – Henry Adams

“It is, in fact, a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.” -T.S. Eliot

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” -Alexandra K. Trenfor

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. – Chinese proverb

education quotes for teachers

Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. – Anatole France

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. – Claude Bernard

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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. – Agnes Repplierg

quotes about education and mindset

They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. – Malala Yousafzai

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ― Thomas Jefferson

Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. – Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.- John Holt

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. –  Og Mandino

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Quotes about education and its importance.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela

“I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.”– Ann Brashares

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” ― Walter Cronkite

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” ― Muriel Spark

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” ― Victor Hugo

Education is the ability to meet life’s situations .- Dr. John G. Hibben

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. – John Hersey

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” -Charles F. Kettering

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.“ – Marian Wright Edelman

Education quotes to help you succeed

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. – Conrad Hall

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” -Will Durant

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. – Sydney J. Harris

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. – Ernest Dimnet

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” -Chinese proverb

“Every artist was at first an amateur.” – Ralph W. Emerson

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” ― Mark Twain

All men by nature desire to know. – Aristotle

“Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.“ – W. E. B. Du Bois

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” – Alexander the Great

“Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.” – George Weah

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

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“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ” ― Jane Austen (Read more Jane Austen quotes.)

“By seeking and blundering we learn.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. “Light! Give me light!” was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.” -Helen Keller

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. ” ― Pete Seeger

“Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.” ― Claire Fagin

Inspirational education quotes

“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.” ― John Taylor Gatto

“Only the educated are free.” ― Epictetus

“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.” -Peter Drucker

“A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.” ― Anne Bishop

“Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.” ― Frank Herbert

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” -Tom Bodett

“I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.” ― Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

“I don’t want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.” ― Malala Yousafzai

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” -Chinese proverb

“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.” ― Mark Twain

“It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.” ― Cormac McCarthy

“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth” ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

Education quotes to inspire you to keep learning

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” –Martin Fisher

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”― Aristotle

“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” –Claude Bernard

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” — Chinese Proverb

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” — Carl Rogers

“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” – Mark Twain

“You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius

“We learn from failure, not from success!” ― Bram Stoker

“The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” – Jack Nicholson

Quotes about education to inspire and motivate

“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” — Thomas Carruthers

82. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” –Socrates

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius

“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” ― Douglas Adams

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” – Leonardo da Vinci

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Education quotes to elevate your perspective

“Education is the art of making man ethical.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” – Brigham Young

“Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.” – Eric Fromm

“The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.” – George Eastman

“Education is the transmission of civilization.” – Will Durant

Inspirational quotes about education

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” – Jim Rohn

“Education is the mother of leadership.” – Wendell Willkie

“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.” – Plato

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer

. “Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.” – Thomas Moore

“Education should light a fire within us to improve us and help our world.” – Sarah Josepf

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Your library is your paradise.” – Desiderius Erasmus

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant

“Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.” – Ernest Dimnet

Education quotes to elevate your mind

“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond

“One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.” – Sophocles

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” – Aristotle

“By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Education is learning what you didn’t know you didn’t know.” – George Boas

“Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.” – John Adams

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo da Vinci

Education quotes to inspire and motivate you

“The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” – Malala Yousafzai

“Education is everything- education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.” – Ciara

“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes of Sinope

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” – Elin Nordegren

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous.” – Michelle Obama

“Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.” – Thomas Lodge

“We want the education by which character is formed, the strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet.” – Swami Vivekananda

“Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.” – Stephen Mitchell

More education quotes and sayings

“A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Andy McIntyre

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”- Epictetus

“The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.” – William R. Inge

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” – Henry David Thoreau

1“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” – William Haley

I’m Murshid Akram, a introvert who love reading and sharing positive vibes through quotes and sayings. I believe with love and compassion we can make this world a better place.

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Michelle Obama, the former first lady and one of the most popular figures in the Democratic Party, delivered one of the Democratic National Convention’s most emphatic takedowns of former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night and turned one of his most controversial campaign lines against him: “Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those ‘Black jobs’?” she said.

Mrs. Obama, a reluctant campaigner, enthralled a packed arena in Chicago with a convention appearance that lent firepower to Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. She offered support and praise for Ms. Harris, but focused much of her nearly 20-minute speech squarely on Mr. Trump, mocking his past comments, his background and his behavior, while mostly avoiding naming him.

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She zeroed in on his debate-night complaint about immigrants taking “Black jobs” by pointing out that the presidency of the United States has been one and might soon be again. She said that Americans like Ms. Harris understood “that most of us will never be afforded the grace of failing forward,” a reference to Mr. Trump’s business troubles. She noted that most Americans do not grow up with “the affirmative action of generational wealth.” (Mr. Trump was born into a wealthy family in Queens.)

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AI Gone Wild: How Grok-2 Is Pushing The Boundaries Of Ethics And Innovation

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As AI continues to evolve at breakneck speed, Elon Musk's latest creation, Grok-2, is making waves in the tech world. This powerful new AI model is not just pushing the boundaries of what's technologically possible—it's also challenging our notions of AI ethics and responsibility.

Grok-2, the latest offering from Musk's xAI company, is designed to be a jack-of-all-trades in the AI world. Available to X (formerly Twitter) Premium subscribers, this model boasts impressive capabilities in chat, coding, and image generation. But what sets Grok-2 apart from its predecessors and competitors?

For starters, Grok-2 is flexing its intellectual muscles in ways that are turning heads. It seems to be going toe-to-toe with OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google Gemini in areas like coding and mathematics. This is no small feat, considering the fierce competition in the AI space.

But Grok-2's capabilities extend beyond mere number-crunching and code generation. Its image-creation abilities are where things start to get really interesting—and controversial.

Pushing The Envelope: Grok-2's Controversial Approach

Unlike more restrained AI models like ChatGPT or Google's Gemini, Grok-2 seems to operate with fewer ethical guardrails. This has resulted in the generation of images that would make other chatbots blush—and regulators frown.

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We're talking about AI-generated images that push the boundaries of taste and, in some cases, veer into potentially harmful territory. Examples of Grok-2's controversial creations include:

• An image of Mickey Mouse wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat while holding a cigarette and beer.
• A depiction of Donald Trump embracing a pregnant Kamala Harris.
• A compromising image of Bill Gates involving a certain white powder.

This laissez-faire approach to content generation is raising eyebrows and concerns, especially in light of upcoming elections and the ongoing battle against misinformation.

The situation has been further complicated by recent events involving former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Musk posted an AI-generated video of him and Donald Trump dancing together, which was reposted by Trump, who also reposted several AI-generated images on his Truth Social platform and on X. They included an image collection of Taylor Swift and her fans, including images of young, smiling women in "Swifties for Trump" T-shirts and a picture mimicking a World War I U.S. Army recruiting poster, replacing Uncle Sam's face with Swift's and reading: "Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump." It was simply captioned: "I accept!"

While these images might have been posted as "satire," their dissemination by a major political figure highlights the potential for AI-generated content to blur the lines between fact and fiction in the political sphere.

The Double-Edged Sword Of Innovation

On one hand, Grok-2's capabilities represent a significant leap forward in AI technology. Its ability to understand and generate complex content across multiple domains is impressive and could lead to breakthroughs in fields ranging from scientific research to creative arts.

However, this power comes with significant risks. The ease with which Grok-2 can create convincing fake images and potentially misleading content is alarming. In an era when distinguishing fact from fiction online is already challenging, tools like Grok-2 could exacerbate the spread of misinformation and deepen societal divisions.

Regulatory Challenges And Ethical Considerations

The emergence of Grok-2 is likely to intensify ongoing debates about AI regulation and ethics. Regulators, particularly in Europe, are already scrutinizing X's handling of misinformation. The introduction of a powerful AI model with fewer ethical constraints is likely to draw even more regulatory attention.

Key questions that need to be addressed include:

• How can we balance innovation with responsible AI development?
• What ethical guidelines should govern AI-generated content, especially when it comes to depicting real people or sensitive topics?
• How can we educate users about the potential risks and limitations of AI-generated content?
• What role should tech companies play in self-regulating their AI models?

The Musk Factor: Disruption And Debate

It's worth noting that Grok-2's approach aligns with Elon Musk's well-known penchant for disruption and pushing boundaries. By creating an AI model that challenges societal norms and ethical conventions, Musk is once again stirring up debate and forcing us to confront difficult questions about the future of technology.

This move is classic Musk—innovative, controversial, and guaranteed to keep the tech world talking. However, it also raises important questions about the responsibility that comes with creating such powerful tools.

Looking Ahead: Navigating The AI Frontier

As we continue to explore the frontiers of AI technology, the development of models like Grok-2 highlights the need for ongoing dialogue between tech innovators, ethicists, policymakers, and the public.

We must find ways to harness the incredible potential of AI while also implementing safeguards to protect against its misuse. This may involve developing more sophisticated content moderation tools, investing in digital literacy education, and creating clearer ethical guidelines for AI development.

The story of Grok-2 is still unfolding, but one thing is clear: it represents a pivotal moment in the evolution of AI. How we respond to the challenges and opportunities it presents will shape the future of technology and society for years to come.

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100 Unconventional Quotes About Curiosity, Learning and Education

As a highly energetic and creative person, having to sit in a classroom all day often felt like being in a prison. While I love to learn, I found the whole model of schooling to be backwards and impractical for my needs.

The factory-style education system is oriented toward a certain kind of individual and the more creative, risk-taking and entrepreneurial oriented people often don’t fit very well in traditional schools.

Sitting in a classroom or working in a typical corporate office all day certainly isn’t for everyone.

For those who want to do creative work and become an entrepreneur, the rote learning model in our standardized school system isn’t very good preparation for life.

Reimagining Education For The 21st Century:

The fast-changing 21st century world requires a passion-driven learning system in which students can develop intrinsic self-motivation.

I strongly believe to solve the massive problems we face today, we will need a complete reimagining of our education system where students are exposed to people of all ages, take some risks where they might fail publicly and work to solve real problems that exist in their communities.

Over the last few years, I’ve been collecting quotes in my Evernote from a wide range of history’s greatest thinkers about how to facilitate better learning experiences that inspire curiosity and encourage students to get more involved in their communities.

Here is the full collection of inspiring learning and education quotes:

Lifelong Learning Quotes:

“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

― Eric Hoffer

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

― Henry Ford

“In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: forget about it. Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it. One day, you will glance up at your collection of Japanese literature, or trip over the solar oven you built, and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.”

― Grace Llewellyn

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

― Erich Fromm

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.”

― Chinese Proverb

“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.”

― Denis Waitley

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”

― Stanley Kubrik

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

― Albert Einstein

Creativity Quotes:

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

― E. O. Wilson

“Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

― Napoleon Hill

“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.”

― Edward de Bono

“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”

― Ken Robinson

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.”

― Steve Jobs

“Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”

― Arthur Koestler

“I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.”

“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.”

― Antony Jay

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”

― Source Unknown

“Every artist was at first an amateur.”

― Ralph W. Emerson

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can’t be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.”

― John Taylor Gatto

Learning By Doing Quotes:

“One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.”

― Sophocles

“I hear and I forget.  I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

― Benjamin Franklin

“Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.”

― Samuel Butler

“People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done.”

― Gilbert Highet

“Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.”

Genius Quotes:

“I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.”

“Do not train children in learning by force and 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.”

“It is as true now as it was then that no matter what tests show, very little of what is taught in school is learned, very little of what is learned is remembered, and very little of what is remembered is used. The things we learn, remember, and use are the things we seek out or meet in the daily, serious, non-school part of our lives.”

― John Holt

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into ole age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”

― Aldous Huxley

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

― Arthur Rimbaud

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

― Aristotle

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

― Calvin Coolidge

Holistic Learning Quotes:

“Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

― Leonardo da Vinci

“The highest function of education is to bring about an integrated individual who is capable of dealing with life as a whole.”

― Krishnamurti

“What makes people smart, curious, alert, observant, competent, confident, resourceful, persistent – in the broadest and best sense, intelligent – is not having access to more and more learning places, resources and specialists, but being able in their lives to do a wide variety of interesting things that matter, things that challenge their ingenuity, skill, and judgement, and that make an obvious difference in their lives and the lives of the people around them.”

― John Holt

“Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man’s losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements.”

― Roberto Assagioli

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialisation is for insects.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”

― William Haley

Leadership Quotes:

“Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.”

“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

“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.”

― Mark Twain

“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.”

Growth Mindset Quotes:

“We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.”

― Carol Dweck

“The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.”

―  Seth Godin,  Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

― Helen Keller

“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.”

― Mary Kay Ash

“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”

“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.”

― Abraham Maslow

“After seven experiments with hundreds of children, we had some of the clearest findings I’ve ever seen: Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. How can that be? Don’t children love to be praised? Yes, children love praise. And they especially love to be praised for their intelligence and talent. It really does give them a boost, a special glow—but only for the moment. The minute they hit a snag, their confidence goes out the window and their motivation hits rock bottom. If success means they’re smart, then failure means they’re dumb. That’s the fixed mindset.”

Curiosity Quotes:

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.”

― Martin H. Fischer

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

― Pablo Picasso

“We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them.”

― Jean Jacques Rosseau

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

― Leonardo Da Vinci

“No matter how he may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.”

― Frances Willard

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”

― Lloyd Alexander

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”

― Thomas Huxley

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“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

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity.”

― Harvey Ullman

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

― Isaac Newton

Schooling Quotes:

“Don’t let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.”

― Alfie Kohn

“Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

“There were no sex classes. No friendship classes. No classes on how to navigate a bureaucracy, build an organization, raise money, create a database, buy a house, love a child, spot a scam, talk someone out of suicide, or figure out what was important to me. Not knowing how to do these things is what messes people up in life, not whether they know algebra or can analyze literature.”

– William Upski Wimsatt

“The system manufactures students who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it.”

― William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep

“Nothing bothers me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”

– Seymour Papert

“Think of the things killing us as a nation: narcotic drugs, brainless competition, dishonesty, greed, recreational sex, the pornography of violence, gambling, alcohol, and — the worst pornography of all — lives devoted to buying things, accumulation as a philosophy. All of these are addictions of dependent personalities. That is what our brand of schooling must inevitably produce. A large fraction of our total economy has grown up around providing service and counseling to inadequate people, and inadequate people are the main product of government compulsion schools.”

– John Taylor Gatto

“Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that’s it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It’s a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.”

– Tom Hodgkinson

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on – because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.”

– Noam Chomsky

“What is the purpose of industrial education? To fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence? Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States and that is its aim everywhere else.”

– H. L. Mencken

“The anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don’t know.”

– John Holt

“What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.”

– George Bernard Shaw

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

― B. F. Skinner

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“The school system … is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.”

–  Marshall McLuhan

“Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.”

– Seth Godin

“What rewards and punishments do is induce compliance, and this they do very well indeed. If your objective is to get people to obey an order, to show up on time and do what they’re told, then bribing or threatening them may be sensible strategies. But if your objective is to get long-term quality in the workplace, to help students become careful thinkers and self-directed learners, or to support children in developing good values, then rewards, like punishments, are absolutely useless. In fact, as we are beginning to see, they are worse than useless—they are actually counterproductive.”

“Home-based education is not an experiment. It’s how people learned to function in the world for centuries. And there is no reason to think people today can’t do the same thing. School is the experiment… And that experiment is in trouble.”

– Wendy Priesnitz

“The old system where every child who locked away and set into nonstop, daily cutthroat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now.”

“Schools have not necessarily much to do with education… they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.”

– Winston Churchill

“Much of 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

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”

― Robert M. Hutchins

“In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don’t have it for long.”

“Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being “with it,” yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.”

― Ivan Illich

“Education: free and compulsory – what a way to learn logic!”

― Frank van Dun

“What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.”

― George Bernard Shaw

“Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society…But for me, education means making creators…You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.”

― Jean Piaget

“Artificial learning takes what is simple and natural and turns it into a complex array of objectives, goals, measurements, administrators, supervisors, counselors, and transportation experts. Natural education requires only a guide providing direction, and a learner ready to discover and create goals and values that are personally meaningful.”

― Linda Dobson

Classical Liberal Education:

“We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application–not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech–and learn them so well that words become works.”

“The central virtue of a liberal education is that it teaches you how to write, and writing makes you think. Whatever you do in life, the ability to write clearly, cleanly, and reasonably quickly will prove to be an invaluable skill.”

― Fareed Zakaria

“Because of the times we live in, all of us, young and old, do not spend enough time and effort thinking about the meaning of life. We do not look inside ourselves enough to understand our strengths and weaknesses, and we do not look around enough – at the world, in history – to ask the deepest and broadest questions. The solution surely is that, even now, we could all use a little bit more of a liberal education.”

“In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile ”

― Isaac Asimov,

“It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as the potential heir of a cultural birthright, whereas a practical education has the nature of a commodity to be exchanged for position, status, wealth, etc., in the future. A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past. The practical educators assume that human society itself is the only significant context, that change is therefore fundamental, constant, and necessary, that the future will be wholly unlike the past, that the past is outmoded, irrelevant, and an encumbrance upon the future — the present being only a time for dividing past from future, for getting ready.

But these definitions, based on division and opposition, are too simple. It is easy, accepting the viewpoint of either side, to find fault with the other. But the wrong is on neither side; it is in their division…

Without the balance of historic value, practical education gives us that most absurd of standards: “relevance,” based upon the suppositional needs of a theoretical future. But liberal education, divorced from practicality, gives something no less absurd: the specialist professor of one or another of the liberal arts, the custodian of an inheritance he has learned much about, but nothing from.”

―  Wendell Berry,  The Unsettling of America

“The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction.”

“Practical utility, however, is not the ultimate purpose of a liberal arts education. Its ultimate purpose is to help you learn to reflect in the widest and deepest sense, beyond the requirements of work and career: for the sake of citizenship, for the sake of living well with others, above all, for the sake of building a self that is strong and creative and free.”

Comfort Zone Quotes:

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.”

― Thomas Szasz

“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.”

― Dr. David M. Burns

” Always do what you are afraid to do.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do or do not. There is no try.”

“Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!”

― Garth Brooks

“Worry is misuse of the imagination. ”

― Mary Crowley

”Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security….The new security will be a belief that …if this doesn’t work out you could do something else. You are your own security.”

― Charles Handy

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbour was. “Light! Give me light!” was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

21st Century Education Quotes:

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”

― Alvin Toffler

“Our rapidly moving, information-based society badly needs people who know how to find facts rather than memorize them, and who know how to cope with change in creative ways. You don’t learn those things in school.”

― Wendy Priesnitz

“Educators – like musicians, journalists, carmakers, and bankers before them – won’t know what hit them. But as sure as change is overtaking every other sector of society, it will overtake education – as well it should. Our cookie-cutter, one-pace-fits-all, test-focused system is not up to the task of teaching the creators of the new Googles.

Call me a utopian but I imagine a new educational ecology where students may take courses from anywhere and instructors may select any students, where courses are collaborative and public, where creativity is nurtured as Google nurtures it, where making mistakes well is valued over sameness and safety, where education continues long past age 21, where tests and degrees matter less than one’s own portfolio of work, where the gift economy may turn anyone with knowledge into teachers, where the skills of research and reasoning and skepticism are valued over the skills of memorization and calculation, and where universities teach an abundance of knowledge to those who want it rather than manage a scarcity of seats in a class.”

― Jeff Jarvis in Hacking Education

“I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers…creativity above fact regurgitation…individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance….. And we must reject all notions of ‘reform’ that serve up more of the same: more testing, more ‘standards’, more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.”

― Tom Peter, “Re-Imagine”

“‘The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.”

― William Gibson

“The “real world” that parents worry unschooling kids won’t be able to cope with is not the “real world” of the future; it’s one designed to churn out obedient workers and consumers. But times – and the economy — are changing.”

Question Everything:

“Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.”

― Vilfredo Pareto

“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.”

― Jacob Bronowski

“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it . . . or because it is tradition, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conductive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings – that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.”

― Gautama Buddha

“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

​“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.”

― Francis Bacon

“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.”

― John Locke

“It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreak and ruin. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

Social Change:

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

―  Margaret Mead

“There is no neutral education. Education is either for domestication or for freedom.”

― Joao Coutinho

”Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.”

― John Ralston Paul, “Voltaire’s Bastards”

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

― Abraham Lincoln

“Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.”

― Emma Goldman

“Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.”

― David P. Gardner

“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”

― Laurence J. Peter

“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.”

― Tyron Edwards

“Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more. School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?”

― Kurt Vonnegut

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”

– Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

“All I am saying can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.”

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child’s curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”

― Alice Miller

“Students get the message about what adults want. When 4th graders in a variety of classrooms were asked what their teachers most wanted them to do, they didn’t say, “Ask thoughtful questions” or “Make responsible decisions” or “Help others.” They said, “Be quiet, don’t fool around, and get our work done on time.”

“If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.”

― Linda Darling-Hammond

“Because schools suffocate children’s hunger to learn, learning appears to be difficult and we assume that children must be externally motivated to do it. As a society, we must own up to the damage we do to our children…in our families and in our schools. We must also be willing to make the sweeping changes in our institutions, public policies and personal lives that are necessary to reverse that harm to our children and to our society.”

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience.”

― Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller’s Teacher

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child’s curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”

― Alice Duer Miller

“Children are born passionately eager to make as much sense as they can of things around them. If we attempt to control, manipulate, or divert this process… the independent scientist in the child disappears.”

“Education is a natural process carried out by the child and is not acquired by listening to words but by experiences in the environment.”

― Dr. Maria Montessori

“Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get to school on time. They’re constantly reminded they are preparing for real life. While being isolated from it.”

― Sandra Dodd

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

― Rabindranath Tagore

“Again, the most effective (and least destructive) way to help a child succeed—whether she’s writing or skiing, playing a trumpet or a computer game—is to do everything possible to help her fall in love with what she’s doing, to pay less attention to how successful she was (or is likely to be) and show more interest in the task. That’s just another way of saying that we need to encourage more, judge less, and love always.”

“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.”

― Luther Burbank

Modern Alienation:

“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.”

― R.D. Laing

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

“The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.”

― Jules Henry

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

“Public education reflects our society’s paternalistic, hierarchical worldview, which exploits children in the same way it takes the earth’s resources for granted.”

“It doesn’t make much difference what you study, so long as you don’t like it.”

― Finley Peter Dunne

“Euripides long ago said, ‘who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.’ I nominated myself as an ‘infidel’ as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.”

Self-Education Quotes:

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

― Isaac Asimov

“If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.”

― Carl Rogers

“Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.”

― Louis L’Amour

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.”

“Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and diligence.”

― Abigail Adams

“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember amateurs built the ark, but professionals built the Titanic.”

“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered. It is something molded.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence.”

“All things good to know are difficult to learn.”

― Greek Proverb

“Through the power of self-education you can be anything you want to be or do anything you want to do. Self-education power does not require money, fixed time or fixed life style. Options are extremely flexible. Rewards are unlimited. You can control your destiny.”

“Learning of the highest value extends well beyond measurable dimension. It can’t be fit into any curriculum or evaluated by any test. It is activated by experiences which develop our humanity. It teaches us to be our best selves.”

― Laura Grace Weldon

“The Hunter who chases two rabbits will catch neither.”

― Ancient Proverb

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

― Joseph Brodsk

“When you replace “why is this happening to me” with “what is this trying to teach me?” Everything shifts.”

“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.”

― Roy H. Williams

“I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.”

– Robert Kiyosaki

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'Megalopolis' trailer sparks controversy with fabricated quotes from film critics

There's no such thing as bad publicity — or is there?

The official trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's sci-fi epic "Megalopolis" dropped online Wednesday. The two-and-a-half-minute clip opened with a series of scathing critiques of Coppola's past works, including "The Godfather," "Apocalypse Now" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula."

"True genius is often misunderstood," the trailer's narrator says. "One filmmaker has always been ahead of his time."

The critics' roundup featured allegedly damning reviews from Pauline Kael of The New Yorker, Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice and Roger Ebert of the Chicago-Sun Times, among others. In one clip, Kael is quoted saying "The Godfather," an Oscar-winning crime drama, is "diminished by its artsiness."

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However, social media users quickly noticed that many of the quotes in the trailer were not included in the original film reviews. In a statement to USA TODAY, a Lionsgate spokesperson said the movie studio is "immediately recalling" the "Megalopolis" trailer.

"We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our vetting process," the spokesperson said. "We screwed up. We are sorry."

As of publication, the trailer has been pulled from Lionsgate's official YouTube channel.

Despite its star-studded cast, which includes Adam Driver ,  Aubrey Plaza ,  Shia LaBeouf ,  Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, "Megalopolis" received mixed reviews during its May premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, with some calling the drama "staggeringly ambitious" and others dubbing the long-awaited movie "absolute madness."

'Megalopolis' trailer earns mixed reactions on social media

The "Megalopolis" trailer divided viewers on social media, many of whom scrutinized the use of fabricated quotes in the promotional clip.

"Did they just straight up fabricate that Pauline Kael quote? I’m reading her review, and I don’t see it," X user @Carzonfye wrote. "Also, she loved the movie lol."

Did they just straight up fabricate that Pauline Kael quote? I’m reading her review and I don’t see it, also she loved the movie lol https://t.co/rd6FFJJikX https://t.co/5WVpqnczzP — carz (@Carzonfye) August 21, 2024

"All the 'mean' critics' quotes in the MEGALOPOLIS trailer were made up and likely came from an erroneous ChatGPT answer. Incredible," New York Times columnist Kyle Buchanan wrote on X.

All the “mean” critics’ quotes in the MEGALOPOLIS trailer were made up and likely came from an erroneous ChatGPT answer. Incredible https://t.co/bKrRoFvBM9 — Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) August 21, 2024

"Why are they making up quotes to get mad about in the Megalopolis trailer?" X user @SohamGadre wrote. "Also, it seems like the movie's marketing is very directed at 'online critics' (because) those are the only people who are going to actually go see it."

'Megalopolis' divides critics: Is Coppola's $120M sci-fi epic 'bafflingly shallow' or 'remarkably sincere'?

Others praised the trailer for its snarky tone.

"The BALLS on Coppola to open the new megalopolis trailer like a diss track about people calling him a failure," @parker_gibbons wrote on X.

the BALLS on coppola to open the new megalopolis trailer like a diss track about people calling him a failure pic.twitter.com/PELUMjkVBG — parker gibbons (@parker_gibbons) August 21, 2024

"Coppola making the latest 'Megalopolis' trailer mostly about telling his haters to suck it is proof positive that time has not passed him by," X user @craigcalcaterra wrote. "He's thoroughly of this moment in history."

Coppola making the latest "Megalopolis" trailer mostly about telling his haters to suck it is proof positive that time has not passed him by. He's thoroughly of this moment in history. https://t.co/sr7kaYO3AX — Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) August 21, 2024

"This MEGALOPOLIS trailer is breathtakingly tacky, vindictive, bitter, ridiculous (and) unhinged and I like it!" @fuzzyyarns wrote on X. "Hollywood marketing is so calculated, clinical (and) antiseptic."

"Megalopolis" is expected to be released in theaters on Sept. 27.

Contributing: Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY

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Democrats at DNC attack Trump on how they say Project 2025 would hurt education in states

Critics say low-income students could suffer in red-state rural schools.

Democrats have made conservatives' controversial Project 2025 and its education agenda a weapon in their attacks against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention.

Dismantling the Department of Education is a key issue for conservatives this election season and is mentioned in the 922-page playbook for the next conservative president. And while Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, it aligns in many ways with his Agenda 47 platform.

President Joe Biden slammed the Republican vision for education as he addressed the Democratic National Convention on Monday night.

"Donald Trump, and his Republican friends, they not only can't think, they can't read very well," Biden said, adding,"Seriously, think about it. Look at their Project 2025. They want to do away with the Department of Education."

Michelle Obama touched on the subject in her speech the following night: "Shutting down the Department of Education, banning our books -- none of that will prepare our kids for the future."

Trump reiterated his plan for education in his wide-ranging X Spaces interview last week with Elon Musk.

"I want to close up the Department of Education (and) move education back to the states," Trump told Musk's more than 1 million listeners, claiming that the U.S. had fallen to the bottom of rankings among other countries and that states do a better job educating their children without federal mandates.

The U.S. is not ranked at the bottom, as Trump claimed, but due to historic learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is close to the bottom half in subjects like math in the most recent Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Nearly a third of U.S. students also ended last school year behind grade level in at least one academic subject, according to new data released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

It's unclear whether the former president would close the agency and redistribute its funding to states or stop funding it and close it altogether. ABC News has reached out to the Trump campaign but didn't receive a response by time of publication.

Critics of the plan say it would hurt mostly small, rural school systems, many of them in red states.

In an interview with the nonprofit More Perfect Union, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said he would defend public education against defunding because it would exacerbate the "haves and the have-nots." An Education Department official warned that if the agency were shuttered, states would lose a "large chunk" of funding from the feds and state and local governments -- on average about 10%. State and local governments make up roughly 90% of public school funding.

Education finance expert Jess Gartner said school districts with the "highest need" students could take a devastating blow if the federal agency's funding was cut because funding for school districts isn't always equally distributed.

"Those targeted funds were being targeted for a reason," Gartner said.

'I can't find the word 'education' in (the Constitution)'

House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., is one of the most vocal opponents of the department. She raises caregivers' and local school board members' concerns that they shouldn't have to "co-parent" with the government.

Conservatives also reject what they characterize as bureaucrats infusing culture war topics into their kids' school curriculums.

Foxx argued it's unconstitutional for the government to handle state education issues in the first place.

"I can't find the word 'education' in there (the Constitution) as one of the duties and responsibilities of Congress or the federal government," Foxx told ABC News.

That ideology gives way for Trump to work with Foxx and congressional Republicans to pass a department closure if he wins the White House and Republicans maintain control of the House and take over the Senate in November, according to Arnold Ventures Director of Higher Education Clare McCann.

"Congress created the Department of Education," McCann told ABC News, adding, "Congress could uncreate it if they wanted."

In theory, McCann said, Trump could make the shift with congressional approval but it's unlikely it would happen immediately. There would need to be a support system to dole out the money to states, but that's something the department would be equipped to do.

"There's a reason the Department of Education was created and it was to have this kind of in-house expertise and policy background on these issues," McCann said. "The civil servants who work at the Department of Education are true experts in the field," she added.

Arkansas moves against 'indoctrinating' students

Former Trump White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has pushed for conservative education reform since becoming the first woman elected as the state's governor in 2022. Last year, she signed into law the state's LEARNS Act, which calls for raising minimum teacher salaries, introducing universal pre-K, banning teaching on "gender identity, sexual orientation, and sexual reproduction" before fifth grade and banning curriculum that would "indoctrinate students with ideologies, such as Critical Race Theory."

It also instituted a universal voucher program for so-called "school choice," which is also similar to plans in Trump's Agenda 47 and Project 2025.

Superintendent of the Little Rock School District Jermall Wright said abolishing the Department of Education would be "catastrophic."

Wright, who cited friction with the school board in announcing last week he was stepping down from his position after two years on the job, said such an action would hinder title and grant funding meant to supplement state funding. He also fears it would strip states of Title I funding for low-income and disadvantaged students as well as McKinney-Vento funds, which includes support for the unhoused and transient populations.

"We rely on those additional funds to provide, you know, an array of services and supports for students and families," Wright told ABC News. "The face of homelessness has changed. It's not just, you know, people who are living on streets. We have extremely mobile families. They move from apartments to apartments, hotels, motels, etc. We have children who may live with family members that are not their biological parents. All those types of situations."

Before Little Rock, Wright led the Mississippi Achievement School District -- which encompasses two smaller districts totaling about 5,000 students in the rural Mississippi Delta. He said he saw firsthand the amount of federal aid some districts in the poorest state in the nation rely on.

"In those small rural districts, the majority of our funding came from federal funds, which I'd never experienced that a day before in any place that I had worked," he said, adding "Those districts wouldn't be able to survive, let alone, you just can't function."

Wright also said the federal agency plays an essential role in overseeing states' civil rights issues.

An impact on vulnerable students

That's a concern in other states like California, where education advocates worry abolishing the department would have an impact on vulnerable students and students with disabilities as well as general learning outcomes for students and teachers.

"There's a critical role for the U.S. Department of Education to support states in thinking about how to meet the needs of student groups who either have been marginalized, underserved, or for whom we really haven't had the opportunity to think about how best to meet their needs," said Sarah Lillis, California executive director for Teach Plus

Gartner, the education finance expert, said much of this conversation is dependent on economic opportunity, not location.

"There are very wealthy districts in California and there are very poor districts in California (and everywhere else)," Gartner told ABC News. "Wealthy districts aren't going to be impacted very much by their Title I money being cut. They're going to go out and pass a bond and raise that money - and then some - locally in two days. It's the poor, rural district that's going to be devastated by that and have no recourse to fill that gap."

Due to their emphasis on local control, states like Texas with strong economies would virtually be unaffected, according to state policy experts.

Others say they don't need the feds' help.

Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Debbie Critchfield said the state doesn't look to the U.S. Department of Education for guidance on education policy. She told ABC News that she's fine with abolishing the agency.

"We are making decisions about education focused on our own state," Critchfield told ABC News, adding "It is very rare that we're reaching out to the federal government to help us know what initiatives and goals we want to have here for our kids in Idaho."

Critchfield believes shuttering the department would have "little impact" on her state.

"We don't look to them (the Department of Education) to say what should we be working on," Critchfield said. "I'm talking to leaders in the state, local school boards, parents in our state, they're the ones telling me what I should be focused on. Outside of (the Department of Education) watchdogging, the influence on outcomes just isn't there."

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• A resurfaced interview between Blake Lively and the journalist Kjersti Flaa went viral on YouTube.
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The journalist from a viral interview in which Blake Lively was dismissive said the experience made her nervous about future celebrity interactions.

Kjersti Flaa  interviewed Lively about the film "Café Society" in 2016. She didn't share the video publicly until August 10, when she uploaded it to YouTube with the title, "The Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job."

In the video — which has more than 3 million views at the time of writing — Lively snapped at Flaa after the Norwegian reporter congratulated her on her pregnancy.

"First of all, congrats on your little bump," Flaa said, kicking off the interview.

"Congrats on your little bump," Lively responded. (Flaa was not pregnant.)

Later in the interview, Lively challenged Flaa for asking a question about clothes. The actor appeared to ignore Flaa for most of the interaction and turned her body toward her costar Parker Posey.

"It actually took me a while to get over the experience," Flaa told Business Insider in an email on Monday.

"Every time I entered a room after this I got nervous that something similar might happen again," she wrote. "The fact that I still don't get what triggered the behavior made it even harder. I felt it was my fault for a long time. I have met moody celebrities, but nothing like this interview."

Flaa said in an interview with MailOnline that Lively's comment was particularly hurtful because she wasn't able to conceive.

"It's true that the comment hurt me because I was never able to have kids myself, but of course Blake did not know that so I can't blame her for the pain that I felt," she told BI.

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"That put aside, I think that she threw that comment back at me to make me feel bad. There is no way around it," she added.

Flaa said in a separate YouTube video she uploaded on Monday that the experience initially made her afraid to interview Kristen Stewart , who also starred in the film.

"I wanna shout out to Kristen Stewart, who was the person I interviewed after the horrific incident," Flaa said.

"She was the most wonderful, wonderful person to interview. So she saved my day, and you know, I was terrified walking into that interview because I'd just experienced what I had," she said, adding that Stewart was "so sweet."

Flaa would eventually meet Lively again in 2018 at the press junket for "A Simple Favor" with Anna Kendrick. The interview appeared to be relaxed, with no mention of the previous interaction.

Fans pointed out the difference in Lively's demeanor during the second interview.

"It's weird watching her trying to be nicer than the last time," one person commented on the YouTube video.

"The irony is that Blake doesn't even remember this is the woman she bullied," another wrote.

Lively's reputation has taken a hit

The resurfaced interview coincided with the backlash Lively has received during the promotion of her new film, "It Ends With Us," which is about a woman who experiences domestic abuse.

Some commentators said Lively's promotion of the movie has been too lighthearted, while others accused the actor of using it as an opportunity to promote her beverage line and hair-care line.

"Grab your friends, wear your florals, and head out to see it," Lively said in one promotional video that's been making the rounds on TikTok .

Desislava Dobreva, a branding strategist, and Jake Holyoak, the managing director of the public-relations agency One March, told BI that Lively's reputation could be mended if she issued a detailed public statement addressing the criticism.

Lively hasn't publicly responded to Flaa's comments or the criticism surrounding "It Ends With Us." However, she shared a National Domestic Violence Hotline resource on her Instagram story on August 13.

Flaa told BI she was unaware of the controversy surrounding Lively when she posted the 2016 interview and had "no idea it would get this kind of attention."

"Looking back, I still feel that I handled it the best way I could," Flaa said. "In these settings, they always blame the journalist if something goes wrong. It's never the talent's fault no matter what happens."

Representatives for Blake Lively did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

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Letters | Letters: Book ban in Elizabeth is aimed at “controversy” but hits “learning” and “education” instead

Book banning denies children chance to learn

Re: “ School district suspending ‘controversial’ library books ,” Aug. 16 news story

As a retired secondary English teacher, I read with interest the list of books that the Elizabeth School District is choosing to take off the school shelves. Board member Mary Powell says, “We need to be sure we are protecting our students from things that are controversial.”

Secondary classrooms are a totally appropriate place for discussing controversial subjects. That is what learning is, not protecting students from the real world. Several years ago I taught ninth graders Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Speak,” which addresses teen rape, and we had thoughtful conversations that hopefully protected students from future rapes.

Classrooms offer safe spaces to discuss controversial subjects, and it was an honor to facilitate those conversations.

Marty Marsh, Fort Collins

In my opinion, one of the most important responsibilities of a parent is to teach their children “how” to think. I believe our country would benefit if more parents did this rather than teaching them “what” to think.

Noreen Keleshian, Denver

Can you believe “religious viewpoints” is listed with the others?

The Elizabeth School District in Elbert County is pulling 19 books from their school library shelves for parental review that officials deemed too controversial.

“Then, the committee reviewed the books for graphic violence, sexual content, profanity/obscenity, ideations of self-harm or mental illness, religious viewpoints, drug or excessive alcohol use and racism/discrimination.”

Gary Wachter, Centennial

Former president should respect, not degrade, those who served

Re “Trump: Civilian award ‘much better’ than Medal of Honor,” Aug. 17 news story

I don’t comment publicly about politics, but I feel compelled to respond to Donald Trump’s reported comments about Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. It’s just one more of his repeated derogatory remarks about service members who have served honorably in defending the freedom of our country.

I am a retired U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sergeant, and I served in the Vietnam War. I’ve been honored to meet several Medal of Honor recipients, one of which was a POW in the Korean War. Service members who earn the highest honor deserve our highest respect. Recognition of heroism and supreme sacrifice should not be diminished to being “second best,” especially by a former President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

As the saying goes about our commitment to defend our country in time of war, all gave some and some gave all. He should respect that with words of appreciation, not degradation.

Sylvio J. Gamache, Loveland

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