Education Quotes

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
- James Baldwin

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

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
- Anthony J Dangelo

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

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
- Wendell Phillips

who must be taught to think.
- Anne Sullivan

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry Brooks Adams

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
- James Baldwin

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

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
- Hosea Ballou