Inspiring Education Quotes

#1. Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

John Taylor Gatto

#2. I see the beauty of books and sacred-souls of every author displaced in a bookshop.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Life consists of books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens.

Jeffrey Rosen

#5. There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

Thomas Huxley

#6. Education stimulates self-study.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. If you have assimilated even one idea and made it your life, you have more education than any person who has got by heart the entire Library of Congress.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. All knowledge is born in the mind, and circumstances make them manifest.

Abhijit Naskar

#9. Educate every child.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. You all have opportunities and skills and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the kind of impact that you're going to make. Imagine how you can inspire those around you to reach higher and complete their own education.

Michelle Obama

#11. The student must be humbled to be trained by the teacher.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

Henry Ford

#13. What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things like the opinion is now convincing, now can we make it more instructive, after he'd gone through ten drafts.

Jeffrey Rosen

#14. Be persistent in the pursuit of your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. All around the world, there are many great schools, wonderful teachers, and inspiring leaders who are working creatively to provide students with the kinds of personalized, compassionate, and community-oriented education they need.

Ken Robinson

#16. With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#17. An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Henry Ford

#18. I will keep reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Without visions and written goals, what direction are we going to head?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Adversity helps a man to know his inherent great abilities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.

Brigham Young

#22. Education means inspiring someone's mind, not just filling their head.

Katie Lusk

#23. Historical gap is created due to missing written records.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Passion for books is the desire to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Doubt is the limit of progress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

Paul Kagame

#27. The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

Joseph Campbell

#28. We ought to read daily.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. I am impressed with the natural health programs at Nature Care College. Their dedication to quality education is truly inspiring.

Deepak Chopra

#30. The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.

Debasish Mridha

#31. Competence, Courage, Confident!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. Imagination is a divine creativity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. The pursuit of a greater self is a holy-being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#35. I will do my very best while there is still grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. If you stop learning, you soon forget what you already know.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's a matter of connection with fellow citizens and of democratic education.

Jeffrey Rosen

#38. You have to go head, even if no one goes with you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

Henry Ford

#40. 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

#41. To failure at something is an attempt to succeed

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. Good well-being leads to good working performance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.

Barack Obama

#44. If we are to rise as real Sapiens, we must work towards spreading education among the masses.

Abhijit Naskar

#45. The greatest education is the knowledge of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#46. A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Henry Ford

#47. The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#48. There is a rise after every fall.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#49. There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

Henry Ford

#50. Make time to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#51. It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.

Thomas Huxley

#52. Physical exercise promotes positive self-image, high-productivity and energetic wellbeing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#53. The goal is achievable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#54. I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.

Ban Ki-moon