Famous Quotes About Education

Of all the wealth that one can accumulate in a lifetime, the most valuable is education. Education that comes through a structured learning system can refine one's thinking, perspective, and vision. Only education helps us separate the wheat from the chaff. Here are famous quotes about education that serve as a guiding force to combat illiteracy and ignorance.

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

• Latin proverb
  By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.

• G. C. Lichtenberg
  Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit -- nay, than they think.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.

• Joseph Joubert
  Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

• Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

• Charles William Eliot
  One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

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

• César Chávez
  Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

• George Bernard Shaw
  I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead --ahead of myself as well as of you.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  The education of the will is the object of our existence.