30 Inspiring Educational Quotes for Teachers and Students


Are you tired of the same old motivational speeches? Well, fear not, because we’ve got a collection of inspiring educational quotes for teachers and students that will make you want to learn, laugh, and conquer the world. Whether you’re looking for a witty comeback or a deep philosophical insight, we’ve got you covered. So, get ready to be inspired and let’s dive in!

Let’s dive in and look at 1) Education Quotes about Independent Learning 2)Quotes on What Education Should Do 3) Values in Education: Quotes 4) Importance of Education 5) Self Education 6) College Quotes 7) More Inspiring Quotes

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Education quotes about independent learning and about what it should do.

Best Educational Quotes

  1. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. – Proverbs 2:6

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

  3. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – William Butler Yeats

  4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  15. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. – Mark Van Doren

  16. Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci

Education Quotes about Independent Learning

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. – Galileo Galilei.

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

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

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

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

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

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

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before we wonder how we will teach our children to think critically and be creative, we must realise children are largely capable of leading their own studies. – Rebbecca Devitt, Why on Earth Homeschool.

Quotes on What Education Should Do

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of education. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it. – William Howard Taft

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

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child’s natural bent. –  Plato

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

“‘What madness it is,” says Seneca, “to learn so much trash , when time is so precious.” Nothing, therefore, should be learned solely for its value at school,  but for its use in life,  that the information which a scholar has aquired may not vanish as soon as he leaves school.”
– John Amos Comenious, 1957, p. 78.

Inspiring Bible Quotes About Education

  1. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. – Proverbs 1:7

  2. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. – Proverbs 22:6

  3. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. – Hosea 4:6

  4. The wise in heart are called discerning, and gracious words promote instruction. – Proverbs 16:21

  5. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. – Proverbs 2:6

  6. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness. – 2 Timothy 3:16

  7. Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance. – Proverbs 1:5

  8. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. – Deuteronomy 6:6-7

  9. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. – Romans 12:2

  10. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. – Proverbs 2:6

  11. Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. – Proverbs 19:20

  12. The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. – Psalm 119:130

  13. Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before officials of low rank. – Proverbs 22:29

  14. The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. – Proverbs 18:21

  15. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. – Psalm 111:10

  16. Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens another. – Proverbs 27:17

  17. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. – Galatians 6:9

  18. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. – Proverbs 3:7

  19. As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. – Proverbs 27:17

  20. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. – Romans 8:6

Values in Education Quotes

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

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

To educate a man in mind and not morals is to educate a menace. – Theodore Roosevelt

If men think men can decide truth for themselves (this is humanism), they advocate for things like justice, not knowing how to define justice. They advocate for ‘social responsibility’, not knowing how to determine responsibility. – Rebbecca Devitt, Why on Earth Homeschool.

Importance of Education Quotes

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. –Mark Twain

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

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience. – Oliver Wendel Holmes

Self-Education Quotes

Formal-education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature. – Charlotte Mason

A little learning is a dangerous thing. – Alexander Pope 

College Quotations

Alumni are like the wake of a ship; they spread out and ultimately disappear, but not until they have made a few waves. – Anonymous

Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges. – Boby Dylan

Other Educational Quotations

Education begins, like charity, at home. – Susan Ferraro, New York Times.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home. – Milton R. Sapirstein

Getting educated is like getting measles. You have to go where the measles is. – Abraham Flexner

He was like an empty bucket waiting to be filled [with knowledge]. – William Diehl

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Human beings, like plants, can be twisted into strange shapes if their training begins early enough and is vigilantly supervised. They will accept their deformation as the natural state of affairs and even take pride in it, as Chinese women once did in their crippled feet. – Milton R. Sapirstein

Modern education is a contradiction. It’s like a three-year-old kid with a computer in his hand who can multiply 10.6 percent interest of $11,653, but doesn’t know if a dime is larger or smaller than a nickel. Erma Bombek

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life. – C.S. Lewis

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

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

Educational Quotes to Inspire and Make You Laugh

Inspiring Educational Quotes by C.S. Lewis

  1. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. – C.S. Lewis
  2. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. – C.S. Lewis
  3. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. – C.S. Lewis
  4. The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said. – C.S. Lewis
  5. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. – C.S. Lewis
  6. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis
  7. Education is not a subject, and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life. – C.S. Lewis
  8. The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. – C.S. Lewis

Inspiring Educational Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.

  1. 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.
  2. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
  3. The time is always right to do what is right.
  4. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
  5. The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’
  6. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
  7. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.
  8. We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.
  9. The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society.
  10. 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.

Conclusion: 30 Inspiring Educational Quotes for Teachers and Students

And there you have it, folks, 30 inspiring educational quotes for teachers and students that will make you feel like you can take on anything. Whether you’re a teacher trying to motivate your students or a student trying to inspire yourself, these quotes will surely do the trick. So, go ahead, print them out, stick them on your wall, and let them remind you that the power of education is limitless. As Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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Rebecca Devitt

Most adults don't particularly want to relive their schooling experience on a daily basis. They would gladly move on to a new life devoid of homework and teachers. Very, very few adults will passionately blog about their schooling some 15 years after graduating. This makes Rebecca Devitt somewhat unique. As it happens, she was homeschooled. And she loved it. Still does. And she wishes every kid could get a taste of homeschooling at its very best. Her website How Do I Homeschool, is a springboard for parents to see what a life of homeschooling could be for both them & their children. When she's not blogging Rebecca is still homeschooling her-adult-self by learning Latin, growing weird vegetables and most importantly looking after her two children Luke & Penny. She has a husband Tristan and is a participant at Wollongong Baptist Church. She's also written a book about why parents should homeschool called 'Why on Earth Homeschool'.

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