Back to School Quotes

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

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." – B.B. King
 
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it." –Winston Churchill

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

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” –Margaret Mead

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” --Martin Luther King Jr.
 
“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.” –Muriel Spark

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”  --Baruch Spinoza

“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.” –Anton Chekhov

“All I have learned, I learned from books.”  --Abraham Lincoln

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”  --Robert Orben

“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” –James Madison

“Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.” –Malala Yousafzi

“Only the educated are free.” --Epictetus

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”  --Malcolm Forbes
 
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."  --Kofi Annan

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." -- John Dewey

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." -- George Washington Carver

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth." --John F. Kennedy