50 Powerful Education Quotes for Kids

Education has always played a major role in shaping human society. The rise of literacy, the invention of the printing press, and the development of universities all contributed to the spread of knowledge and the advancement of civilization. With the emerging technologies, it has become all the more possible to educate & engage kids in various ways and help them retain learning. That’s why at Edugist we place priority on engaging parents and every stakeholder in the education ecosystem.

Are you a parent trying to help your child understand the importance of education? Education quotes, in that very case, can be a great assist!

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

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

3. “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

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

5.“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”– Mark Twain

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

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

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

9.“The Best way to predict your Future is to create it.”– Abraham Lincoln

10.“Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and diligence.”– Abigail Adams

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

12. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

13. “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” – Ernest Dimnet

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

15.“ Never be afraid to try something new. Remember amateurs built the ark, but professionals built the Titanic.” – Unknown

16.“Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

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

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

19.“The only real failure in life is one not learned from.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

20.“Learning without thought is a labour lost, thought without learning is perilous.” – Confucius

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

22.“ 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

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

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

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

26.“Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus

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

28.“Did you know that the Chinese symbol for ‘crisis’ includes a symbol which means ‘opportunity’? – Jane Revell & Susan Norman

29. “Every artist was at first an amateur.” – Ralph W. Emerson

30. “I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.” – Chinese Proverb

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

32. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.” – Elinor Smith.

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

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

35. “Learning is never done without errors and defeat.” – Vladimir Lenin

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

37.“Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge” – Theodore Roszak

38.“Success comes in cans, failure in can’t.” – Unknown

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

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

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

42. “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” – Aristotle

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

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

45. “There are two types of people; the can do and the can’t. Which are you?” – George R. Cabrera

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

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

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

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

50. “You haven’t failed until you stop trying” – Unknown