Quotes on Education

We all know the importance of education. It is the lifeline of modern human life. No one can deny the significance of education and learning in our lives. It helps us in seeing things in a better perspective. We get to know the world and its people in a better way. The scope of education is not just restricted to a good career and earning five figure salaries. It is much more than that. Education tells us about what is right and what is wrong. It helps us in developing insight and wisdom. And perhaps, if there is one thing that segregates humans from animals then it must be education. The ability to read, write and understand is what makes we humans the special ones. Let’s have a look at some of the phenomenal quotes on education:-

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Practice is the best instruction of them all.

- Publilius Syrus

If the next generation is to face the future with zest and self-confidence, we must educate them to be original as well as competent.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

- Aristotle

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed...

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life...

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

- Thomas Moore

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

- Sir Richard Steele

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

- Aristotle

We can get over being poor, but it takes longer to get over being ignorant.

- Jane Sequichie Hifler

Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

- Mark Twain

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

- Thomas Watson, Sr., founder of IBM

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and rootpuller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Aristotle

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

- Plato