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50 of the Best Quotes About Education

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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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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

Do these learning quotes have you ready for more knowledge? See our list of 8 Essential Books for Graduate Students and keep learning at the highest level.

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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90 Inspirational and Powerful Education Quotes

Education is perhaps one of the most important ingredients to a happy, successful, and constructive life. In fact, having access to a good education during childhood and your early adulthood can make a real difference in your later life. However, not all education systems are equally good. It is saddening to see how miserable and uninterested teachers (or even entirely corrupted systems) do nothing but close the minds of young children. No matter if you’re a teacher seeking to reignite your passion for teaching or a student struggling with subjects that are far from reality, quotes about education can help you to quickly re-inspire your passion for education. Therefore, you can find a collection of powerfully inspirational education quotes in the following. Enjoy these beautiful and magnificent quotes about education.

In the ideal case, education and educators inspire pupils and students to open and expand their minds. Even more importantly, a good education system skillfully prepares the young children for life. Yet, math, biology, and physics alone won’t prepare you for the challenges of life.

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

In many cases, however, education is far from what it should actually be. Instead, it is nothing but soul crushing to young spirits.

In the following, you can find our collection of education quotes.

Still, there are many exceptional teachers who wholeheartedly have the best interest of their pupils and students in mind. These are to teachers who encourage their students to think for themselves and to become independent and responsible individuals. Even more so, such teachers may even encourage you to pursue your dreams instead of telling you how unrealistic they are. In the ideal case, these are the exceptional individuals that convince you that you can accomplish all your dreams – if you are willing to do whatever it takes.

What is so amazingly powerful about education quotes is that they stem from the hands of some of the wisest and most brilliant individuals that have ever walked on earth. As such, the following quotes about education are packed with wife lessons and inspiring wisdom. Not only will such quotes make you think deeply about education but they will also motivate you to continue the process of learning something new each day.

Let’s have a look at these fantastic education quotes:

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

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

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

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

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.“ Maimonides

“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity.“ Cesar Chavez

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

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

“Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.“ W. E. B. Du Bois

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

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

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

“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.“ Leonardo da Vinci

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.“ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

“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

“To teach is to learn twice.“ Joseph Joubert

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.“ Francis Bacon

“One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I’ve spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I’ve always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.“ Condoleezza Rice

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.“ Theodore Roosevelt

“No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.“ Bobby Scott

“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

“The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.“ Leo Buscaglia

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.“ John Locke

“The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.“ Jean Piaget

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Men and women must be educated, to a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.“ Mary Wollstonecraft

“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

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

“Education is all a matter of building bridges.“ Ralph Ellison

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

“The mere imparting of information is not education.“ Carter G. Woodson

“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.“ Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.“ B. F. Skinner

“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.

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

“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

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

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.“ Anatole France

“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

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

“You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.“ Malcolm X

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.“ Harvey S. Firestone

“All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.“ Malala Yousafzai

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

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

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

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

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.“ Aristotle

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

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

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

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

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

“Your library is your paradise.“ Desiderius Erasmus

“For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.“ Plato

“The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.“ George Eastman

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

I hope you enjoyed reading this collection of education quotes.

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Thanks for this collection, it’s pretty helpful.

Hi Steve, Education not only teaches what is in the books, it helps in evolving a person into a much wiser and better human being. Great Post! Thanks for posting!

most of the quotes are evergreen and will continue to inspire students and academicians

Thank you Steve very helpful. Candice

I think it can convince everyone of the importance of learning! I fully agree with the main idea that knowledge is power.

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106 Inspirational Education Quotes for Students & Teachers

These inspiring educational quotes will show students, teachers and parents the power of learning. Wether you’re looking to motivate kids or young adults in the classroom, or other teachers and colleagues, this is the wisdom they need to thrive and be their very best version of themselves.

Also make sure to see these inspirational quotes for kids (if you’re looking to inspire and motivate the next generation).

Education Quotes

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

“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

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

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“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley

“Education without application is just entertainment.” – Tim Sanders

“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” – Mark Twain

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

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin

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

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

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

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

“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond

“School exams are memory tests, in the real world no one is going to stop you from referring to a book to solve a problem.” – Amit Kalantri

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking

“You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius

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

“The road to freedom –here and everywhere on earth-– begins in the classroom.” – Hubert Humphrey

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

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

“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” – Mary McLeod Bethune

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

“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

“Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.” – John Dewey

“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

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

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

“Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.” – Eric Fromm

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

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

“All of life is a constant education.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“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

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” – Auguste Rodin

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

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

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

“You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.” – Julia Child

“Education should not be reading about the past rather it should be about addressing the present.” – Rajesh Walecha

“Take what you learn and make a difference with it.” – Tony Robbins

“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” – Horace Mann

“Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.” – Confucius

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

“Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France

“Intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.” – Daniel Keyes

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

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

“We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” – Michelle Obama

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

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

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” – Mark Twain

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

“Education around entrepreneurship should start early, at secondary level, and be very robust by college level.” – Stephen A. Schwarzman

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein

“The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.” – John Dewey

“Only the educated are free.” – 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

“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” – William Glasser

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

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

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

“School is the path, not the point.” – Will Richardson

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

“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

“Education is the transmission of civilization.” – Will Durant

“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later” – Dana Stewart Scott

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

“All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.” – David Hawkins

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss

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

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” – Richard Feynman

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

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

“Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats

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

“We all know that education, more than anything else, improves your chances of building better lives.” – 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

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

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

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

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

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso

“Education is everything- education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.” – Ciara

“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” – Epictetus

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.” – Gustave Flaubert

“No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.” – Nelson Mandela

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

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” – William Arthur Ward

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

“All things good to know are difficult to learn.” – Greek proverb

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson

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

“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“To delight in literature is to desire to learn.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

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

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller

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

“The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.” – George Santayana

“Let’s recommit to work towards our common goal: a nation where all of us are winners, all of us have shelter, food, and education.” – Nelson Mandela

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand

“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.” – Nelson Mandela

“I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.” – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.” – Will Rogers

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi

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12 Motivational Education Quotes to Inspire You

By Kendall Bird on 10/18/2012

It takes someone special to be an educator; a person who cares for others, and aims to help students grow to their fullest potential. The best teachers are capable, dedicated and hardworking, along with having an interest in making a substantial difference in the future of children.

Deciding to study early childhood education is a unique calling and career, but where do you find your motivation? In today’s world, inspiration takes many forms and has many different sources. To help you stay inspired, we chose 12 motivational education quotes from past educators, lawmakers and historical figures to do just that.

Whether you are seeking inspiration or just looking for a pick-me-up during the day, we hope these quotes about education encourage and inspire your work in early childhood education. Remember, quotes are not only a powerful way to showcase how you feel, but also a way to convey a message to many.

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12 Motivational quotes about education

1. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. -Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa and political activist

2.Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King Jr., clergyman, activist and leader of the American civil rights movement

3. Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world. - Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator

4. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. - C.S. Lewis, novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist and Christian apologist

5. What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child that must the community want for all its children. - John Dewey, U.S. philosopher and educator

6. Try not to have a good time ... this is supposed to be educational. - Charles M. Schulz, cartoonist

7. Wisdom begins with wonder. - Socrates, Greek philosopher

8.For children, play is as natural as breathing—and as necessary. - Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld, U.S. early childhood educator and author

9. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. -Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company

10. 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, 35th President of the United States

11. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass, American social reformer, writer and statesman

12. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Adams, journalist, historian and novelist

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Conclusion: The Importance of Education

According to  Infed.org  education is the wise, hopeful, and respectful cultivation of learning undertaken in the belief that all should have the chance to share in life. ( Source )  

Education is essentially the gain of knowledge. Through the knowledge gained individuals can create and contribute more to their community, which creates positive opportunities for other individuals in the same community.

Education can be seen as an avenue to improve one’s life, it enables a person to formulate informed opinions and allows for a better interpretation of situations that may occur.

Most importantly, education is valuable because it cultivates the development and enhancement of skills. Employers and companies look for the most qualified person for a particular job or position through the skills they possess.

Skills such as the handling of heavy machinery or advanced computer skills may give a person a better chance of seeking employment.

Education also gifts a person with the skill to become a better communicator , both orally and written. This also aids in landing better employment opportunities and widens one’s array of skill sets.

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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:

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• 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. .

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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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100 Learning Quotes To Inspire You To Learn (Forever)

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .

Here are 100 of the best learning quotes I could find. Hope you’ll find inspiration and motivation to keep learning and growing (all your life!). You’ll discover quotes by Confucius, da Vinci, Einstein, and more. Enjoy!

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. Weston H. Agor

Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers. Albert Einstein

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. Zig Ziglar

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

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather

Once you learn patience, your options suddenly expand. Robert Greene

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

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John Gardner

Life is trying things to see if they work. Ray Bradbury

Don’t make up your mind. “Knowing” is the end of learning. Naval Ravikant

The fear of coming up as a fool keeps you always a fool. Kunal ( @Kunal )

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. Epictetus

Ease and abundance are for fools. Discomfort is for the wise. Maxime Lagacé

Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough. Alain de Botton

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The Best Learning Quotes

The doer alone learneth. Friedrich Nietzsche

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. Friedrich Nietzsche

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. Aristophanes

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves. Paulo Coelho ( Source )

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

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle (The Nicomachean Ethics)

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. Doug Larson

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin

You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way. Marvin Minsky

Constantly look for challenges, pushing past your comfort zone. Robert Greene

Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. Lord Chesterfield

You learn more feigning ignorance than signaling knowledgeability. Michael

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn. Ray Bradbury

Humility is the doorway to truth and clarity of objectives… it’s the doorway to learning. Wynton Marsalis

Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning. Naval Ravikant

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

Almost all Americans own a smartphone or a computer. Each device contains the library of Alexandria. The sum total of all world knowledge. You can learn anything. Why don’t you? Too busy tracking social status. Too enthralled by imagery your evolution can’t resist. @TheStoicEmperor

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

The goal of all learning is action, not knowledge. John C. Maxwell

If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it. Yogi Bhajan

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 am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. Eartha Kitt

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

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I never lose. I either win or learn. Nelson Mandela

Liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain. John F. Kennedy

The more you learn, the more you earn. Warren Buffett

The greatest learning for me usually happens in times of distress, pain, suffering. Oprah Winfrey

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. Phil Collins

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

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. Mahatma Gandhi

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. Mark Twain

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education. Mark Twain

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful. Buddha

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill

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

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. Henry David Thoreau

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. George Santayana

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

With every mistake we must surely be learning. George Harrison (The Beatles)

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

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

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

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. Richard Branson

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso

Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

Short Learning Quotes

When one teaches, two learn. Robert A. Heinlein

Belief gets in the way of learning. Robert A. Heinlein

“What did you learn” is always first and best question. Oprah Winfrey

Never stop learning. Never stop growing. Mel Robbins

Take what you learn and make a difference with it. Tony Robbins

Learn bits and pieces from everyone. Naval Ravikant

In youth we learn; in age we understand. Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

You can’t learn from anyone if you never stop talking. @TheStoicEmperor

Rejoice in what you learn, and spray it. Tim Minchin

The cost of failure is…learning. Neil Strauss

Unlearning is the highest form of learning. Boii McCoy

There is no learning without pain. Shane Parrish

If knowledge is a power, then learning is a superpower. Jim Kwik

If it’s easy, you’re not learning. Unknown

The key is to fail, learn, and improve quickly. Ray Dalio

Evolve or die. Ray Dalio

What we need to learn is in front of us. Paulo Coelho

To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert

Observe and absorb reality as deeply as possible. Robert Greene

I learn best by jumping into the unknown. Jesse Itzler

Let your past make you better, not bitter. Lewis Howes

To learn one must be humble. James Joyce (Ulysses)

He who laughs most, learns best. John Cleese

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. Novalis

All learning has an emotional base. Plato

The greatest enemy of learning is knowing. John C. Maxwell

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

Live, love, learn, leave a legacy. Stephen R. Covey

Once you have learned to ask questions – relevant and appropriate and substantial questions – you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know. Neil Postman ( Teaching As a Subversive Activity , Amazon book)

Key Takeaways

• The best way to learn? Teach!
• Another great way to learn? Make mistakes.
• Failing is a gift. It’s an opportunity to learn something.
• Learning follows understanding.
• Your friends
• Your enemies

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What’s your best trick to learn something fast? What’s your favorite learning quote? And remember: words can transform your life, if you find the right ones.

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131+ Of The Best Education Quotes, Sayings & Proverbs

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131+ Of The Best Education Quotes, Sayings & Proverbs

1. “The purpose of education is to make minds not careers.” – William Deresiewicz

2. “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein

3. “A good educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” – Helen Miller

4. “A child without education is like a bird without wings.” –  Chinese Proverb

5. “Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.” – Proverb

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

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

8. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

9. “To educate a child is to turn walls into doors.” – Proverb

10. “All of life is a constant education.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

11. “An investment in interest pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

12. “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom

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

14. “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey

16. “Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.” – Unknown

17. “Education is the vaccine of violence.” –  Edward James Olmos

18. “A dull mind gets bored easily. A curious mind expands forever.” – Maxime Lagace

19. “No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

20. “It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.” – Claude Bernard

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

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

23. “The beautiful about learning is no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

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

25. “Education breeds confidence, confidence breeds hope, hope breeds peace.” – Unknown

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

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

28. “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William Ralph Inge

29. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned at school.” – Albert Einstein

30. “The roots of education is bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

31. “Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.” – Alan Moore

32. “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.” – Zig Ziglar

33. “Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” – Chinese Proverb

34. “Education will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.” – Claire Joaquin

35. “Education must not simply teach work – it must teach life.” – W.E.B. Du Bois

36. “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

37. “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” – Maimonides

38. “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes

39. “When you know better, you do better.” – Maya Angelou

40. “You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.” – Frank Loyd Wright

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

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

43. “Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

44. “When educating the mind of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.” – Dalai Lama

45. “Education isn’t something you can finish.” – Isaac Asimov

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

47. “Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to answer all questions.” – William Allin

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

49. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes

50. “I can only say that I view education as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

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

53. “There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” – John Adams

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

55. “We educate women because it is smart. We educate women because it changes the world.” – Unknown

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

57. “Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.” – Leonardo da Vinci

58. “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

60. “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

61. “Education is not the filling of a pail. The lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats

62. “A child only education as school is an uneducated child.” – George Santayana

63. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci

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

65. “Educating yourself does not mean you are stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent enough to know that there is plenty to learn.” – Melanie Joy

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

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

68. “Education is the key to the future.” – Alek Wek

69. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” –  Albert Einstein

70. “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” – Unknown

71. “Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” – Unknown

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

73. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein

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

75. “The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.” – Maria Montessori

76. “Play is the highest form of research.” – Albert Einstein

77. “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.” – Mortimer Adler

78. “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

79. “Education os the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” – Proverb

80. “Empower yourself with a good education, the get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.” – Michelle Obama

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

82. “Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr

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

84. “Education can become a self-fulling activity, liberating in and of itself.” – Abraham Maslow

85. “Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children ear and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.” – Sir Anthony Seldon

86. “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

87. “Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.” – Aristotle

88. “The future of the world is in my classroom today.” – Ivan Welton Fitzwater

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

90. “Once you learn to read you will be free forever.” – Fredrick Douglass

91. “Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.” – Maria Montessori

92. “By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind, and spirit.” – Mahatma Gandhi

93. “Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.” –  George Washington Carver

94. “What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education” – Howard Howe

95. “Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they face. So it is vital to educate children and explain they should play a role in their country.” – Nelson Mandela

96. “Once you stop learning, you start dying.” – Albert Einstein

97. “Education should be about enhancing your horizons, about having a larger vision of life. But generally, just the reverse is happening.” – Unknown

98. “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes out life in harmony with all existence.” – Rabindranath Tagore

99. “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

100. “The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

103. “Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out the inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.” – Indira Gandhi

104. “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

105. “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 of the nation.” – John F. Kennedy

106. “Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation of grace in the soul.” – Saint Augustine

107. “The function of education is to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but not with morals.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

108. “Education is the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” – Paulo Freire

109. “A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation, and disease, and give them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.” – Audrey Hepburn

110. “The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” –  Jean Piaget

111. “The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.” “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?” –  Sydney J. Harris

112. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” –  C.S. Lewis

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

114. “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

115. “Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” –  G.K. Chesterton

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

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

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

119. “The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” –  Anatole France

120. “Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.” –  Anthony J. D’angelo

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

122. “The learning process continues until the day you die.” – Kirk Douglas

123. “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

124. “Education is a precondition to survival in America today.” – Marian Wright Edelman

125. “Speak clearly, if you speak at all: carve every word before you let it fall.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

126. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” – Socrates

127. “Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant

128. “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

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

130. “Better Than a Thousand Days of Diligent Study is One Day with a Great Teacher” – Unknown

131. “The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.” – Henry Ford

Conclusion Of The Best Education Quotes

That’s all folks! That concludes my list of inspirational and motivational education quotes and sayings that can be applied to good teachers and kids all around the world. If you have your very own educational quote, please share it below as I plan on updating this list frequently! The whole purpose of education is to share information, so let’s do it!

My name is Lewis Keegan and I am the writer and editor of SkillScouter.com. I'm extremely passionate about online education and what it can do for those to better their lives. I spend most of my time blogging, hiking, and drinking coffee. I also have a Bachelor's Degree in Education and Teaching.

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

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 of the nation.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

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

In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education.

How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

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It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based, education, which is so often more focused on turning children into efficient corporate units rather than curious and open-minded adults, will only lead us further down the wrong path. — David W. Orr

While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. — John Dewey

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education. — Barney Frank

Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education . — John Bruton

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education . — John Dewey

Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and engaged citizens. Every year, we spend nearly $100 billion on corporate welfare, and more than $500 billion on defense spending. Surely ensuring the next generation can compete in the global economy is at least as important as subsidies for big business and military adventures around the globe. In fact, I think we can and must go further - not just making public higher education tuition-free, but reinventing education in America as we know it. — Robert Reich

There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks. — Thomas Jefferson

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

A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further. — John Dewey

I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer. — Marc Garneau

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place. — Charles Kennedy

Pretty girls don't need a lot of education to marry into a rich and powerful family, but girls with an average or ugly appearance will find it difficult. These kinds of girls hope to further their education in order to increase their competitiveness. The tragedy is, they don't realize that as women age, they are worth less and less, so by the time they get their M.A. or Ph.D., they are already old, like yellowed pearls." - Xinhua News Agency, 2011. Reposted on All-China Women's Federation website days after International Women's Day. — Leta Hong Fincher

The first ring glowed in the distance, lit up by consumerism that was brought to Jakarta courtesy of western cultures and Christian nations, and it influenced impoverished Muslims in the third ring, who wore Manchester United tee shirts with 'Rooney' on the back, twisting further the attitudes and perceptions of those who were bent already toward radicalism. — Tucker Elliot

I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian. — Edmund Barton

Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand. — Ellen Key

Of his views on education, he says, 'My natural aversion to academic education was further strengthened when I came across an essay by Rabindranath Tagore on education. It confirmed my own precocious conclusions on the subject. I liked to be free to read what I please and not be examined at all.' After — R.K. Narayan

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program. — Aaron Schock

We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of trades and professions by which to get your livelihood merely, was considered worthy of slaves only. But taking a hint from the word, I would go a step further and say, that it is not the man of wealth and leisure simply, though devoted to art, or science, or literature, who, in a true sense, is liberally educated, but only the earnest and free man. — Henry David Thoreau

My research shows that improving the quality of education is a cost-free way to raise prosperity. it's cost-free because it reinforces so many of the other things we need to keep the virtuous cycle rolling that, ultimately, the increase in economic benefits far outstrips the cost of the investment. Education brings more people into the comfort zone of higher income, which increases trust, then causes people to demand better government, which further increases the trust, which further reduces inequality, which increases the pool of those who will get a good education. — Paul J. Zak

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it 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, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else. — H.L. Mencken

I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway. — Mark Twain

It [ further education ] is most essential,otherwise I would not have educated my sons. I learnt the hard way.Maybe if I had some education my success and growth would have been quicker. — Dhirubhai Ambani

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 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. (writing of public education in the April 1924 The American Mercury) — H.L. Mencken

The strength of the scientific establishment in any country is related to its general level of education, not only in supplying large numbers of eager minds for further training, but also in ensuring a public opinion that holds science in esteem and approves financial support. — Arthur Lewis

Take the following potent and less-is-more-style argument by the rogue economist Ha-Joon Chang. In 1960 Taiwan had a much lower literacy rate than the Philippines and half the income per person; today Taiwan has ten times the income. At the same time, Korea had a much lower literacy rate than Argentina (which had one of the highest in the world) and about one-fifth the income per person; today it has three times as much. Further, over the same period, sub-Saharan Africa saw markedly increasing literacy rates, accompanied with a decrease in their standard of living. We can multiply the examples (Pritchet's study is quite thorough), but I wonder why people don't realize the simple truism, that is, the fooled by randomness effect: mistaking the merely associative for the causal, that is, if rich countries are educated, immediately inferring that education makes a country rich, without even checking. Epiphenomenon here again. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind. — Desiderius Erasmus

Often when people think of social involvement, they think of providing something that will meet people's needs in some way. We will do something for the poor. We will provide for them food, furniture, help, education, skills, or whatever. These can all be good starting points. But we need to go further. Poverty is about marginalization and powerlessness. And some forms of charitable intervention can leave people marginalized. They can reinforce a sense of powerlessness. Something is done for the poor. They remain passive. They are not becoming contributors to society. They become more dependent on others. So social involvement is more than presenting people with solutions. Good social involvement is helping people to find their own solutions. We want people to be proactive in their lives and to regain their God-given dignity as human beings made to contribute to community life. So at the heart of good social action is the participation of those in — Tim Chester

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development. — Jerome Isaac Friedman

My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability. — Cardale Jones

This is about putting education absolutely in the centre of enterprise and then using the traditions of Birmingham to inspire and grow. If you have knowledge and business linked together you will grow well, you go further down the innovative path and actually you create more and more jobs. Those jobs will only be available for people with skills but they will be real sustainable employments. That is how important innovation is. — Digby Jones, Baron Jones Of Birmingham

Our big mistake in modern intellectualism is first and foremost its lack of nuance. We have made science synonymous with atheism - a presupposed conception and yet, another means to non sequiturs - and therefore, to a number of enthusiasts determined to go the further, anti-theism. Hereby let us observe that science has long served best and should be, if none other, the one discipline, if at all possible, free of potential ideology, pro-religious or anti-religious, and/or biased presupposition in order to maintain the true authenticity and the full reliability of its nature. — Criss Jami

I went to Northampton College of Further Education. I left there - when I was 16, I left Kingsthorpe Upper - and I went and did a diploma in performing arts, so it was my start in the training process to becoming an actor. — Marc Warren

The repeal of laws as a means to roll back the state is not unjustified. For example, there is no coercion against those who would pick our pockets for "free" healthcare or education, rather it is more so an act of self-defense. As such, we are free to use the state's political apparatus to further a platform against aggression, democracy, and egalitarianism, while supporting property rights. — Daniel Alexander Brackins

Quite like religious fundamentalism, educational fundamentalism is based upon bookish creeds created by the self-proclaimed authority figures of the system. And this very fundamentalism is the cause of all the growing conflicts between the student-body of the education society and the teachers running that society. These conflicts further become tools of exploitation in the hands of a handful of war-mongering, authoritarian, blood-sucking politicians. — Abhijit Naskar

There was a time we laughed at the old guys up on the hill. The ones who graduated a couple of years before us, and who would hang around the school and the ballpark still, and would sit on the hoods of their cars and tell us how when they were seniors they did it better, faster, and further. We laughed, because we were still doing it, and all they could do was talk. If our goals were not met, there was next year, but it never occurred to us that one day there would not be a next year, and that the guys sitting on the hoods of their cars at the top of the hill, wishing they could have one more year, willing to settle for one last game, could one day be us. — Tucker Elliot

Development means a capacity for self-sustaining growth. It means that an economy must register advances which in turn will promote further progress. The loss of industry and skill in Africa was extremely small, if we measure it from the viewpoint of modern scientific achievements or even by the standards of England in the late eighteenth century. However, it must be borne in mind that to be held back at one stage means that it is impossible to go on to a further stage. When a person is forced to leave school after only two years of primary school education, it is no reflection on him that he is academically and intellectually less developed than someone who had the opportunity to be schooled right through to university level. What Africa experienced in the early centuries of trade was precisely a loss of development opportunity, and this is of greatest importance. Pg. 105 — Walter Rodney

Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it?" "What, indeed? It is art for art's sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee?" "For my education, Holmes." "Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last. This is an instructive case. There — Arthur Conan Doyle

But the higher our standard of living, the higher our levels of education, the further people will look around. And we can see which level of openness other societies enjoy. We are no different - we too want more freedom. The question is: How much freedom will be allowed? — Zhang Xin

The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal immigration ... We recommend immediate reimbursement of criminal justice costs, because these conditions can now be met, but we urge further study of the costs of health care and education before impact aid is provided. — Barbara Jordan

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships - a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most. — Abraham Flexner

Then you will make a law that they shall have such an education as will enable them to attain the greatest skill in asking and answering questions? Yes, he said, you and I together will make it. Dialectic, then, as you will agree, is the coping-stone of the sciences, and is set over them; no other science can be placed higher - the nature of knowledge can no further go? I agree, he said. But to whom we — Plato

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless ... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities. — Arthur Ashe

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby. — Mandy Moore

It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented. — John Dewey

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort. — Ayn Rand

I am naturally addicted to venery, I have little ambition and am not at all avaricious. Education has further limited my scope. Having been brought up in society, I am impregnated with its laws; not only should I be afraid of taking a holiday from them, I should also feel it painful to try to do so. In a word, I have conscience as well as fear of gaol. Yes, I know it by experience. How often have I tried to take holidays, to get away from myself, my own boring nature, my insufferable mental surroundings! But always without success. — Aldous Huxley

The ambition to secure an education was most praiseworthy and encouraging. The idea, however, was too prevalent that, as soon as one secured a little education, in some unexplainable way he would be free from most of the hardships of the world, and, at any rate, could live without manual labour. There was a further feeling that a knowledge, however little, of the Greek and Latin languages would make one a very superior human being, something bordering almost on the supernatural. — Booker T. Washington

But a further question arises: Is passion different from reason also, or only a kind of reason; in which latter case, instead of three principles in the soul, there will only be two, the rational and the concupiscent; or rather, as the State was composed of three classes, traders, auxiliaries, counsellors, so may there not be in the individual soul a third element which is passion or spirit, and when not corrupted by bad education is the natural auxiliary of reason? Yes, he said, there must be a third. Yes, I replied, if passion, which has already been shown to be different from desire, turn out also to be different from reason. But that is easily proved: - We may observe even in young children that they are full of spirit almost as soon as they are born, whereas some of them never seem to attain to the use of reason, and most of them late enough. Excellent, — Plato

I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys. — Sugar Ray Leonard

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end. — John Dewey

Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves. — Benjamin Spock

(We) consist of everything the world consists of, each of us, and just as our body contains the genealogical table of evolution as far back as the fish and even much further, so we bear everything in our soul that once was alive in the soul of men. Every god and devil that ever existed, be it among the Greeks, Chinese, or Zulus, are within us, exist as latent possibilities, as wishes, as alternatives. If the human race were to vanish from the face of the earth save for one halfway talented child that had received no education, this child would rediscover the entire course of evolution, it would be capable of producing everything once more, gods and demons, paradises, commandments, the Old and New Testament. — Hermann Hesse

Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole. — Atul Gawande

The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life. — Henry James

Music requires a particular type of education which is simply not given to most people. And, as a result, it's set further apart. It has a special place. People who are familiar with painting and photography and drama and dance, and so on, cannot talk so easily about music. And yet, as Nietzsche writes in The Birth of Tragedy, music is potentially the most accessible art form because, with the Apollonian and the Dionysian coming together, it makes a — Edward W. Said

We don't go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object- we don't think about the relations that that object embodies- and were important to the production of that object, whether it's our food or our clothes or our iPads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non-human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment. — Angela Davis

In this area, people watched reality shows and awful quiz shows, gorging themselves on junk food and moving further and further away from the opportunities that a good education or realistic ambitions could provide. — Jussi Adler-Olsen

The truth is that modern atheists have constructed their position very carefully so that they can never be asked why they hold it. Like the annoying Christian who declares he's had a "special" religious experience that has wholly persuaded him of the Gospel's absolute truth, the New Atheist declares that his entire life and education is an "anti" religious experience, which proves, without further discussion, that there is no God. Any evidence the believer suggests that there might be a God is dismissed by the New Atheists as not being evidence at all. — Peter Hitchens

In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representatives who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions. — Jerry Pournelle

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements. — Thomas Jefferson

Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors. — Thomas Sowell

Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of bourgeois ideology. — William Z. Foster

To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education , to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries. — Thomas Jefferson

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education . — Helen McCrory

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167 Graduation Quotes That’ll Remind You to Follow Your Dreams

By Kristi Kellogg and Marilyn La Jeunesse

Finding the right graduation quote can be a tedious process. After four years of hard work, you want to commemorate this special moment with the right words. Something that defines who you are and sets the tone for the future. The truth of the matter is, it takes lots of blood, sweat, tears, and ramen to make it to graduation .

But, the day has finally come for you to don your hard-earned graduation robes, decorate your cap, and rewatch your favorite graduation movies to get excited for the big day. Bear your tassel proudly, and find the right motto for graduation captions on Instagram, of course. Hey, you didn’t work this hard in school just to post a captionless photo, right?

From inspirational quotes from Taylor Swift to funny graduation quotes from Timotheé Chalamet , we rounded up the best graduation quotes, best senior quotes, and graduation messages from celebrities, athletes, politicians, writers, cartoon characters and more. These thoughtful bits of advice are perfect to include in graduation cards (that go far beyond your “congratulations graduate” message), a commencement speech , or even to use for senior quotes in your yearbook. The choice is yours! Read on to discover 167 best graduation quotes.

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• "Your life is your adventure. And the adventure ahead of you is a journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential." —Kerry Washington
• “If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
• "Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world." —Nelson Mandela
• "Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead." —Nora Ephron
• "You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say 'yes.' And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say 'yes' back." —Stephen Colbert
• "You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don't know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go." —Oprah
• "You don’t go to university so you can punch a clock. You go to university so you can be in a position to make a difference." —Janet Napolitano
• "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." —Malcolm X
• "I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is." —Ryan Gosling
• "Fight for what makes you optimistic about the world. Find it, insist on it, dig into it, go after it." —Jennifer Garner
• "Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education." —Martin Luther King Jr.
• "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
• "If I must give any of you advice it would be say yes. Say yes, and create your own destiny." —Maya Rudolph
• "Your inexperience is an asset in that it will make you think in original, unconventional ways. Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset." —Natalie Portman
• "Take your risks now. As you grow older, you become more fearful and less flexible … Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.' Continue to share your heart with people even if it’s been broken." —Amy Poehler
• "You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future." —Steve Jobs
• "Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here." —Neil Gaiman
• "When you respect the idea that you are sharing the Earth with other humans, and when you lead with your nice foot forward, you’ll win, every time. It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow, but it comes back to you when you need it." —Kristen Bell
• "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have you, you will never, ever have enough." —Oprah
• "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." —Muhammad Ali
• "Go make your big beautiful dent, and as you do so come down on the side of boldness. If you err, may it be for too much audacity, and not too little. For you really are enough. You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self." —Sue Monk Kidd
• "It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition." —Larry Page
• "Some life lessons don’t ever change. They need to be highlighted and they need to be remembered throughout our entire lives. But how you embrace them will distinguish you from the pack." —Brooke Shields
• "You and you alone are the only person who can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell." — Kerry Washington
• "Be the hardest working person you know. Because if you’re not, someone else will be." —Ian Brennan
• "In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality." —Kristian Kan
• "It’s your turn to choose and define what success means to you. Now, others will try to define it for you, but yours is the only voice that matters." — Octavia Spencer
• Nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are . . . to everyone else, it’s just a blip on the radar screen, so just move on. —Jerry Zucker
• "I am here to tell you that whatever you think your dream is now, it will probably change. And that's okay." —Conan O'Brien
• "Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are. And then figure out what is the next right move. And the key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go." —Oprah
• "If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream is right now, if you don’t achieve it you haven’t failed and you’re not some loser." —Stephen Colbert
• "Don’t be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self."—Ed Helms
• “Success is not about wealth or fame, but about inner happiness and fulfillment.” —Margot Robbie
• “There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are — and who we might be if we follow our dreams. —Miley Cyrus
• “God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress.” —Kelly Clarkson
• "We're only here for so long. Be happy, man. You could get hit by a truck tomorrow." —​Timothée Chalamet​
• “Don’t allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on sunglasses.” —Lady Gaga
• "Get busy living or get busy dying." —Stephen King
• "You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets." —Arnold Schwarzenegger
• "If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?" —Joe Namath
• "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." —Wayne Gretzky
• "You will stumble and fall, you will experience both disaster and triumph, sometimes in the same day. But it's really important to remember that like a hangover, neither triumphs nor disasters last forever." —Helen Mirren
• "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." —Thomas Edison
• "You have to dance a little bit before you step out into the world each day, because it changes the way you walk." —Sandra Bullock
• "Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." —Will Rogers
• "The road to success is always under construction." —Lily Tomlin
• "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." —Robin Williams
• "Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor." —Jackson Browne
• “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” —Elbert Hubbard
• “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” —Dolly Parton
• “Sometimes it takes a good fall to know where you stand.” —Hayley Williams
• “Success is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with; you’re just going to end up lonely.” —Selena Gomez
• "The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away." —Joy J. Golliver
• "That clock you hear is the sound of your own heart. Sink your teeth into this life, and don’t get let go." —Lin-Manuel Miranda
• "No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better." —Bobbi Brown
• "You can’t do it alone. Be open to collaboration. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you. Spend a lot of time with them and it will change your life." — Amy Poehler
• "When we show up, act boldly, and practice the best ways to be wrong, we fail forward. No matter where we end up, we’ve grown from where we began." —Stacey Abrams
• "I celebrate you as you remember the power of grace and pride, and I challenge you to choose freedom over fear." —Janelle Monáe
• "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." —John Dewey
• "You could travel with the sheep, follow everybody else’s stuff, but then you’re not you. I guess if I want to say anything it’s ‘Be you.’ Be true to you, and that should make the ride a little more interesting." — Whoopi Goldberg
• "There will be times when your best isn’t good enough. There can be many reasons for this, but as long as you give your best you’ll be OK." —Robert De Niro
• "We may live in an age of instant messaging, instant gratification and Instagram, but there is no way to short circuit the path to success." —Tory Burch
• "Now the first suggestion is to aim high, but be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live." —Sandra Day O’Connor
• "As you graduate, as you deal with your excitement and your doubts today, I urge you to try and create the world you want to live in. Minister to the world in a way that can change it. Minister radically in a real, active, practical, get your hands dirty way." —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." —Henry David Thoreau
• "The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change." —Maya Angelou
• "There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. Wouldn’t you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more everyday like a photograph coming into focus." —Jodie Foster
• "Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing." —Madeleine Albright
• "Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change." —Shonda Rhimes
• "Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table." —Barack Obama
• “Life can be heavy if you carry it all at once. Know what to keep and what to release. Decide what is yours to hold, and let all the other things go." —Taylor Swift
• “A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.” —Chuck Norris
• “It’s the choice. You have to wake up every day and say, ‘There’s no reason today can’t be the best day of my life’.” —Blake Lively
• “We are all deserving and we don’t need permission or an invitation to exist and to step into our power.” —Ilhan Omar
• “Your self worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.” —Beyoncé
• "No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind." —Taylor Swift
• "There’s something so special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer." —Rihanna
• "Understand that one day you will have the power to make a difference, so use it well." —Mindy Kaling
• "I'm continually trying to make choices that put me out of my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable it means you're growing." —Ashton Kutcher
• "It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it." —Meryl Streep
• "It's the choice. You have to wake up every day and say 'There's no reason today can't be the best day of my life.'" —Blake Lively
• "I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." —Michael Jordan
• "There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do." —Derek Jeter
• "My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. There are going to be times in your life when you’re going to have to stick your neck out. There will be challenges, and instead of hiding in a shell, you have to go out and meet them." —Ruth Westheimer
• "There is no passion to be found in playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." —Nelson Mandela
• "When someone who loves you hugs you, hug them back with two arms—don’t do the one-arm hug, because when you hug someone with two arms, it allows you to lean on somebody, and we all need someone to lean on." — Sandra Bullock
• "Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. —Bo Bennett
• "You can never be the best. The only thing you can be the best at is developing yourself." — Natalie Portman
• "Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, ‘Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'" —Cory Booker
• "Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or started a business, or fed a young mind, or sent men into space. Cynicism is a choice. Hope is a better choice." —Barack Obama
• "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say 'Why?' say 'Why not?'" —Billie Jean King
• "I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve." —Maya Angelou
• "There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction." — Oprah Winfrey
• "I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." —Thomas Jefferson
• “Sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is.” —America Ferrera
• “Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.” —Halle Bailey
• “Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.” —Gerard Way
• “Every day is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.” —Demi Lovato
• "Don't be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered." —Michelle Obama
• "Remember this: You are awesome. I’m not suggesting you be boastful. No one likes that in men or women. But I am suggesting that believing in yourself is the first necessary step to coming even close to achieving your potential." —Sheryl Sandberg
• “Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short and you’re too special.” —Ariana Grande
• "Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is: head down and focus on the job." —Chris Pine
• "Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own." —Michelle Obama
• "The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be alone with the sky, nature, and God. For only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature’s beauty and simplicity." —Anne Frank
• "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." —E. E. Cummings
• "I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself." —Emma Stone
• "You don’t have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you, and you already have." —Meryl Streep
• "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." —Mother Teresa
• “So often in life things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• “It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine.” —Eeyore
• “What do you have to do? What do you want to do? Tomorrow is not promised. Make plans anyway.” —Lin Manuel Miranda
• “There are no regrets in life. Just lessons.” —Jennifer Aniston
• “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” —Vincent Van Gogh
• "Change takes courage." —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
• "You're never a loser until you quit trying." —Mike Ditka
• "Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." —Albert Einstein
• “Work so hard that you never have to introduce yourself.” —Gigi Hadid
• "It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up." —Babe Ruth
• "There are no regrets in life — just lessons." —Jennifer Aniston
• "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." —Steven Jobs
• "A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman." —Melinda Gates
• "You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." —Oprah Winfrey
• "To give any less than your best is to sacrifice a gift." —Steve Prefontaine
• "Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity." —Will Smith
• "Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement." —Matt Bondi
• "If you can’t outplay them, outwork them." —Ben Hogan
• "This above all: To thine own self be true." —William Shakespeare
• "Do. Or do not. There is no try." —Yoda
• "Be bold, be courageous, be your best." –Gabrielle Giffords
• "It is absolutely still possible to make a difference." —Michelle Obama
• “You’re not a slacker if you cut yourself some slack.” —Bill Gates
• “Be persistent and never give up hope.” —George Lucas
• “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” —Gloria Steinem
• "It is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." —George Burns
• “There’s always going to be someone who doesn’t like you.” —Ariana Grande
• "All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." —Walt Disney
• “Started from the bottom, now we’re here.” —Drake
• "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." —Eleanor Roosevelt
• "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." —Sun Tzu
• "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." —Arthur Ashe
• "She turned her can’ts into cans and her dreams into plans." —Kobi Yamada
• "There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind." —C.S. Lewis
• "You can never be overdressed or overeducated." —Oscar Wilde
• "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible.'" —Audrey Hepburn
• "A champion is someone who gets up when he can't." —Jack Dempsey
• “Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.” —Lady Gaga
• “Be kind to yourself a little more every day.” —Dua Lipa
• “You will screw it up sometimes.” —Taylor Swift
• “And here you are living despite it all.” —Rupi Kaur
• “If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light.” —Lady Gaga
• “Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.” —Rihanna
• “For every winner, there doesn't have to be a loser. In fact, most success stories are less about competition and more about collaboration.” —Michelle Yeoh
• “Time is the most valuable resource on the planet.” —Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
• “Please don’t be afraid, don’t worry yourself. The end and beginning, beginning and end are connected.” —BTS’s Suga
• “Trust your gut, keep throwing darts at the dartboard. Don’t listen to the critics – and you will figure it out.” —Will Ferrell
• “Building your community is how you change the world.” —LeBron James
• “Never let anyone put you in a box or tell you what you can do. Make sure you paint your own picture and go your own path, and continue to think outside the box.” —Magic Johnson
• “If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.” —Beyoncé
• “Embrace your uniqueness for it is what makes you truly beautiful.” —Dove Cameron
• “I’ve always done whatever I want and been exactly who I am.” —Billie Eilish
• “Don’t try so hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try so hard to be different, just try hard to be you.” —Zendaya
• “If you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise.” —Rupi Kaur
• “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.” —Serena Williams
• “You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.” —Kesha
• “Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” —Marilyn Monroe

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Working definition of trauma-informed practice

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Published 2 November 2022

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Trauma-informed approaches have become increasingly cited in policy and adopted in practice as a means for reducing the negative impact of trauma experiences and supporting mental and physical health outcomes. They build on evidence developed over several decades. However, there has been a lack of consensus within the health and social care sector on how trauma-informed practice is defined, what its key principles are and how it can be built into services and systems.

This document seeks to address this gap by providing a working definition of trauma-informed practice for practitioners working in the health and care sector. The working definition presented in this document reflects the original internationally recognised definition developed by the United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) . The evidence base exploring the use of trauma-informed practice in different settings and sectors is still being developed. This working definition will be kept under review and updated where appropriate to reflect new evidence.

Trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as harmful or life threatening. While unique to the individual, generally the experience of trauma can cause lasting adverse effects, limiting the ability to function and achieve mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual well-being.

Realise that trauma can affect individuals, groups and communities

Trauma-informed practice is an approach to health and care interventions which is grounded in the understanding that trauma exposure can impact an individual’s neurological, biological, psychological and social development.

Recognise the signs, symptoms and widespread impact of trauma

Trauma-informed practice aims to increase practitioners’ awareness of how trauma can negatively impact on individuals and communities, and their ability to feel safe or develop trusting relationships with health and care services and their staff.

It aims to improve the accessibility and quality of services by creating culturally sensitive, safe services that people trust and want to use. It seeks to prepare practitioners to work in collaboration and partnership with people and empower them to make choices about their health and wellbeing.

Trauma-informed practice acknowledges the need to see beyond an individual’s presenting behaviours and to ask, ‘What does this person need?’ rather than ‘What is wrong with this person?’.

Prevent re-traumatisation

It seeks to avoid re-traumatisation which is the re-experiencing of thoughts, feelings or sensations experienced at the time of a traumatic event or circumstance in a person’s past. Re-traumatisation is generally triggered by reminders of previous trauma which may or may not be potentially traumatic in themselves.

The purpose of trauma-informed practice is not to treat trauma-related difficulties, which is the role of trauma-specialist services and practitioners. Instead, it seeks to address the barriers that people affected by trauma can experience when accessing health and care services.

Key principles of trauma-informed practice

There are 6 principles of trauma-informed practice: safety, trust, choice, collaboration, empowerment and cultural consideration.

The physical, psychological and emotional safety of service users and staff is prioritised, by:

• people knowing they are safe or asking what they need to feel safe
• there being reasonable freedom from threat or harm
• attempting to prevent re-traumatisation
• putting policies, practices and safeguarding arrangements in place

Trustworthiness

Transparency exists in an organisation’s policies and procedures, with the objective of building trust among staff, service users and the wider community, by:

• the organisation and staff explaining what they are doing and why
• the organisation and staff doing what they say they will do
• expectations being made clear and the organisation and staff not overpromising

Service users are supported in shared decision-making, choice and goal setting to determine the plan of action they need to heal and move forward, by:

• ensuring service users and staff have a voice in the decision-making process of the organisation and its services
• listening to the needs and wishes of service users and staff
• explaining choices clearly and transparently
• acknowledging that people who have experienced or are experiencing trauma may feel a lack of safety or control over the course of their life which can cause difficulties in developing trusting relationships

Collaboration

The value of staff and service user experience is recognised in overcoming challenges and improving the system as a whole, by:

• using formal and informal peer support and mutual self-help
• the organisation asking service users and staff what they need and collaboratively considering how these needs can be met
• focussing on working alongside and actively involving service users in the delivery of services

Empowerment

Efforts are made to share power and give service users and staff a strong voice in decision-making, at both individual and organisational level, by:

• validating feelings and concerns of staff and service users
• listening to what a person wants and needs
• supporting people to make decisions and take action
• acknowledging that people who have experienced or are experiencing trauma may feel powerless to control what happens to them, isolated by their experiences and have feelings of low self-worth

Cultural consideration

Move past cultural stereotypes and biases based on, for example, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, geography, race or ethnicity by:

• offering access to gender responsive services
• leveraging the healing value of traditional cultural connections
• incorporating policies, protocols and processes that are responsive to the needs of individuals served

Other professional resources and tools

• Office of Health Improvement and Disparities’ Vulnerabilities: applying All Our Health
• e-learning for healthcare: All Our Health: Vulnerabilities and trauma-informed practice
• Trauma-informed practice toolkit: Scottish Government
• Trauma-Informed Wales

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