Twitter-Friendly Education Quotes

Below is a list of quotes we’ve compiled about education. All of them are Twitter-friendly, meaning that they are 140 characters or less. We have attempted to maintain a uniform format regarding quotes, dashes, etc. The quotes are sorted in alphabetical order. Because I have compiled them from various sources, I cannot confirm the accuracy of every quote.

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

“A teacher is better than two books.” – German Proverb

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

“As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.” – Michael Johnson

“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” – George Patton

“Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” – Claus Moser

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.” – J.P Richter

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

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

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” – Josef Albers

“He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.” – Tom J. Connelly

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

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” – Abraham Maslow

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein

“In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.” – Clint Eastwood

“Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life.” – Frederick W.Robertson

“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

“Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.” – Claire Fagin

“Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.” – Indian Proverb

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” – E.M. Forster

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

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

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” – Jacques Barzun

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together & motivating them, the teacher is the most important.” – Bill Gates

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” – Aristotle

“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes Laertius

“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.” – Joseph Campbell

“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.” – Harry S Truman

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

“The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.” – Anonymous

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

“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.” – Carol Buchner

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” Roger Lewin

“Try not to have a good time…this is supposed to be educational.” – Charles M. Schulz

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier

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

“You can never be over-dressed or over-educated.” – Oscar Wilde

“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” – George Clooney