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21 Inspirational Quotes on Education

by Henrik Edberg

Its time for another post with inspirational quotes. This time Id like to focus on something Ifind very useful: education.

School may have beenor still beboring, a killer of creativity or downright awful for you.

But education is still important because it opens the mind and expands it. And if your years inschool were bad or boring you can still educate yourself now.

Anyways, heres some wisdom and inspiration from the people who have walked before us.

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

EpictetusHave you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut

you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet andsounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship

before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way ofknowing how near the harbor was. Light! Give me light! was the wordless cry of my soul, and

the light of love shone on me in that very hour.Helen Keller

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham MaslowYou 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

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will losethe ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks

behind perfectionism.David M. Burns

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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but thereally great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

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

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed toimitate them.

James BaldwinEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

The difference between school and life? In school, youre taught a lesson and then given a test.In life, youre given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Tom Bodett

Tell me and Ill forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and Ill understand.Chinese proverb

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesnt need motivation to speed him up. What heneeds is education to turn him around.

Jim Rohn

People learn something every day, and a lot of times its that what they learned the day before

was wrong.Bill Vaughan

Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.Claus Moser

What sculpture is to a block of marbleeducation is to the human soul.

Joseph Addison

Education makes a people easy to leadbut difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Peter Brougham

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amusestheir minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the

genius of each.Plato

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time for weare bound by thatbut from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

T.S. Eliot

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If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.Ludwig Wittgenstein

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