Quotes about Education
Knowledge alone is not power. Knowledge has value only in the hands of someone who has the ability to think well. People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.
- John Maxwell
Willing to pay the price to be a perpetual learner.
- John Maxwell
Today is a reader, tomorrow's a leader...
- John Maxwell
The measure of a great teacher isn't what he or she knows; it's what the students know.
- John Maxwell
Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
- Jonathan Edwards
The basic American promise that if you work hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college.
- Barack Obama
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
- Aristotle
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
- Charles Stanley
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
- Mark Twain
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- CS Lewis
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.
- Malcolm X