Top 100 Education Is Not Quotes
#1. Education is not an expense, but it is the capital ready to be invested.
The return depends on the wisdom you gained.
Debasish Mridha
#2. Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.
Thomas Boston
#3. A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#4. Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.
Jim Trelease
#5. The task of education is not to teach subjects: it is to teach students.
Ken Robinson
#6. The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
Charles William Eliot
#7. I believe ... that education is not only the most important societal problem but the most interesting.
Katharine Graham
#8. Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
#10. The purpose of Christian education is not academic: it is religious and practical.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#11. We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
Maria Montessori
#12. Education is not a steady process of accrual, but a touch-and-go contest between learning and forgetting, like frantically trying to fill a sink faster than it can empty through an open drain - which
Lionel Shriver
#13. Education is not a perfect process but it reduces the imperfection in our lives.
Debasish Mridha
#14. What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.
Phyllis Schlafly
#16. A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
David Horowitz
#17. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - W. B. Yeats
Daniel Coyle
#18. The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.
Hermann Adler
#19. Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
Desmond Tutu
#20. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
David P. Gardner
#21. Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
Brad Henry
#22. Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.
Richard Levin
#23. While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.
Michael Bennet
#24. I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#25. Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.
Maria Montessori
#26. Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.
Caroline Pratt
#27. Effective education is not adding a program or a set of programs to a school. Rather, it is a transformation of the culture and life of the school.
David Berkowitz
#28. The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#29. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
#30. Education is not about Intellectual Entertainment..It is about continuous improvement, inside and outside!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#31. The older members of my family always demonstrate education as a cure to a disease but I think education is not a cure. It's immunity.
Abdullah Abu Snaineh
#32. The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
James Rowland Angell
#33. Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.
Scott Howell
#34. A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
Bernard Iddings Bell
#35. Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#37. School is temporary. Education is not. If you want to prosper in life: find something that fascinates you and jump all over it. Don't wait for someone to teach you; your enthusiasm will attract teachers to you. Don't worry about diplomas or degrees; just get so good that no one can ignore you.
James Marcus Bach
#38. The bible does not say that a man's education makes room for him, but that his gifts does. Education is not the key to success, it doesn,t guarantee anything; it is your gift that is the key to success
Myles Munroe
#40. The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think,
Walter Isaacson
#41. An education is not something that you get, but something that you claim.
Adrienne Rich
#42. The question to ask about education is not 'What can I do with it?' That is the wrong question because it concentrates on instrumental values and reduces everything to a useful art. The right question is rather 'What can it do to me?
Arthur F. Holmes
#43. Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.
Angelique Kidjo
#44. Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.
Sai Baba
#45. It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts ... it is to teach them to think.
Robert M. Hutchins
#46. The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands ... [and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention.
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
#48. The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance
Thomas Jefferson
#49. To deny someone an education is not just a crime but a sin, because you are denying that person the opportunity to realize who he or she is meant to be.
Firoozeh Dumas
#50. The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
Ken Robinson
#52. Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
John Dewey
#54. The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.
Kent Nerburn
#55. The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.
Leo Buscaglia
#57. These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.
Harry Belafonte
#59. Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art ...
Allan Bloom
#60. We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#61. Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Thomas Sowell
#62. Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind .
Philip Wylie
#63. Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.
Ken Robinson
#64. Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.
John Dewey
#65. Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!
Jill Telford
#66. Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way
Bertrand Russell
#67. An education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries.
Wendell Berry
#68. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process; a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual.
Kenan Malik
#70. Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.
Noam Chomsky
#71. Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
Bel Kaufman
#72. The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.
John Taylor Gatto
#73. The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#75. The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#76. I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.
Laura Bates
#77. Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Shakuntala Devi
#78. Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.
John M. Perkins
#79. Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
#81. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
H.L. Mencken
#82. Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.
Ronald Reagan
#83. If your education is not enough, experience will teach you lessons.
Narendra Modi
#84. Effective education may also require co-opting old faculties to deal with new demands ... Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun.
Steven Pinker
#85. The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.
Henry Ford
#86. Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.
Nita Ambani
#87. Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
Aldous Huxley
#88. Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I
Booker T. Washington
#89. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
#90. Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#91. The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
Jean Piaget
#92. Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Here is a quote I used to post on the chalkboard once and a while for my students:
Education is not going to fall out of a tree and bonk you on the head -like an apple- you have to dig for it, much like digging for Gold...
Miles Cobbett
#94. Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.
Robert Reich
#95. The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
John Locke
#96. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.
Jane Austen
#97. Being a doctor, lawyer in war-torn countries isn't easy when the infrastructure isn't there. The money, the food and education is not always accessible to achieve those dreams.
Brandon Stanton
#98. Education is not success but it is to help us succeed.
T. B. Joshua
#99. The process of education is not generally a process of teaching people to think and ask questions. It ... is mostly one of teaching the young what is and getting them into a mood where they will go on keeping it that way.
Elizabeth Hawes
#100. As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
William Godwin
