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50 of the Best Quotes About Education

Learn as if you were to live forever.

Being an educator is not always the easiest job, but knowing you have made an impact on students’ lives can be so rewarding. Through all of the good times and bad, you continue to persevere and provide education to students of all backgrounds and abilities. We collected 50 of the best quotes about education to celebrate the best parts of teaching, learning, and the impact they have on the world.

Our Favorite Quotes About Education

“education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.” — malcolm x.

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” — Elin Nordegren

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm Forbes

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” — Abigail Adams

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

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

“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.

“A person who won’t read has no advantage over a person who can’t read.” — Mark Twain

“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” — Unknown

“Education is the key to unlock a golden door of freedom.” — George Washington Carver

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” — John F. Kennedy

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” — George Santayana

“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle

“Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life.” — W.E.B Du Bois

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” — Horace Mann

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” — Steve Irwin

“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” — Sidney Hook

“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” — William Bennett

“Education is the key which will unlock the door of opportunity for you.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” — Maya Angelou

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” — Bill Nye

“The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Helen Keller

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle

“To teach is to learn twice.” — Joseph Joubert

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” — Confucius

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” — Mark Van Doren

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

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” — Henry Ford

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Brooks Adams

“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buehner

“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” — Eliphas Levi

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai

“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.” — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” — Isaac Asimov

“Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.” — Ezra Pound

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” — Marian Wright Edelman

“It is only the ignorant who despise education.” — Publilius Syrus

“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” — William Morris

“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.” — Nancy Astor

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.” — Norman Cousins

“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.” — John Ruskin

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.” — Horace Mann

“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.” — Frederick William Robertson

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.” — Edward Everett

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100 Education Quotes That Will Inspire You To Keep Growing

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .

Education is vital.

You without education:

• More likely to become poor
• More likely to have diseases
• More likely to commit crimes

You with education:

• More likely to be happy
• More likely to make more money
• More likely to live longer

So, what’s the key to a better future?

Inspired by this, I have compiled 100 of the best education quotes I could find.

To inspire you and make you realize the value of proper education.

You’ll discover quotes by Einstein, Budha, Lao Tzu, and more.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. Bruce Lee

A dull mind gets bored easily. A curious mind expands forever. Maxime Lagacé

Play is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein ( This source says it’s probably not from Einstein)

A generation of auto-didacts, educated by the Internet and leveraged by technology, will eventually starve the industrial-education system. Naval Ravikant

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller

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

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. Bob Talber

Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson

A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero

The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice. James Clear

The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller

Only the autodidacts are free. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams

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The Best Education Quotes

The more you make it easy for your kids, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning. Maxime Lagacé

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. United Negro College Fund

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. Chinese proverb

The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt

Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge . Naval Ravikant

Podcasts are free. Twitter is free. Wikipedia is free. YouTube is free. We are living in a golden age of self-education. Brian Feroldi ( Source )

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. Naval Ravikant

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. Socrates

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming

Education begins the gentleman, but reading , good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke

Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. Jim Rohn

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. Bill Nye (upworthy.com)

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The learned man knows that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo

I am still learning. Michelangelo

Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Albert Einstein

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

You can never be overdressed or overeducated. Oscar Wilde

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. James Dewar

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Augustine of Hippo

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

My education was interrupted only by my schooling. Winston Churchill

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes

As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Short Education Quotes

Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France

Responsibility educates. Wendell Phillips

A sign of good education: students don’t feel entitled. Maxime Lagacé

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Andy McIntyre

The world exists for the education of each man. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even a fool learns something once it hits him. Homer

Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus

Success is a poor teacher. Robert Kiyosaki

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes

There is no education like adversity. Benjamin Disraeli

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese proverb

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou

Inspirational Education Quotes

If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. Nora Roberts

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino

When anything can be learned online, the barrier to education is simply motivation, curiosity, and persistence. Anthony Pompliano ( Source )

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness . It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant (Naval referred to the Internet and social medias like Twitter and LinkedIn)

Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it. Walter Isaacson

Every person with a smartphone and a pair of headphones has access to the kind of education that was once reserved for the sons of aristocracy. The Stoic Emperor

Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be. Rita Pierson

They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. Aristotle

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual. Jean Piaget

Funny And Surprising Education Sayings

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day. Jay Mohr

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones

Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for. Jerry Seinfeld

Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime. Red Skelton

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn’t stop until you get to school. Milton Berle 😂

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. Mark Twain

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. Mark Twain

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. Robin Williams

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education Proverbs For Value-Packed Wisdom

When the student is ready, the master appears. Buddhist proverb

If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly. Buddhist proverb

Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen proverb

A single conversation with a wise man is better than 10 years of study. Chinese proverb

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese proverb

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. Chinese proverb

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Chinese proverb

Wise men may not be learned; learned men may not be wise. Chinese proverb

A stumble may prevent a fall. English proverb

Despise school and remain a fool. German proverb

All things good to know are difficult to learn. Greek proverb

An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught. Japanese proverb

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. Japanese proverb

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. Latin proverb

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin H. Fischer

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. Eartha Kitt

Key Takeaways

• Want a great education? Never get bored asking questions.
• Want a great way to learn? Play! Don’t be so serious.
• Want to go far in life? Be an autodidact. You can learn anything on the Internet.
• Remember: answers are good, but questions are better.
• To know is good. To know what’s worth knowing is better.

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35 Inspiring Quotes about Education

Sometimes it can be hard to remember why education and learning is important. I have vivid memories from college where I wanted to drop out and how I was so done with school. When that happened, I thought about my why, my purpose. Below are 35 spectacular quotes about education and learning to remind yourself how important it is to learn! These are great for a motivational push when you want to give up on that paper or for a custom teacher’s gift or card. 

As a teacher, my favorite quotes about education from this list are numbers 9, 17, 21, and 30. I’ve seen lots of teacher shirts and things that have those quotes on them!

• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
• “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.
• “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
• “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” – Plato
• “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver
• “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
• “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
• “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.” – Christine Gregoire
• “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
• “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
• “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” – Aristotle
• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Education is the foundation of all progress.” – John F. Kennedy
• “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom
• “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
• “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan

• “Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.” – Brad Henry
• “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer
• “Education is the foundation of opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
• “Education is the vaccine for violence.” – Edward James Olmos
• “The educated man is the man who can stimulate his own mind.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
• “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein
• “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
• “Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.” – Nora Ephron
• “Education is the foundation of a strong and informed society.” – Elizabeth Warren
• “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb
• “Education is the engine of personal development.” – Peter Thiel
• “The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.” – Aristotle
• “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes Laertius
• “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
• “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William S. Burroughs
• “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” – Solomon Ortiz

Which quotes about education are your favorite from the list? Or do you have another that inspires you? Share in the comments below!

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11 comments.

Excellent quotes! My favorite one is “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein

I love all the quotes in this post. My favorites are 5 and 15. So much truth in them!

I love all these quotes about education. My favorite is “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” Education is life, I think it surmarises everything.

Love all of these, number 13 is my personal favorite I would say. Thanks so much for sharing so much inspiration.

This is an awesome collection of quotes. This is by far my favorite: “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

Education is the magic bullet that can take your life where you want it to go. It is the key to rising from poverty and bad circumstances.

Thank you for sharing these amazing quotes. Number 24 “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein – is really what education should be about.

I’m a former teacher. Love these quotes!

“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know,” by Aristotle is one of my favorite quotes! A mind that always wants to learn is the best mind.

such a great list of quotes

Loved this! Great list of quotes! 🙂

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50 Famous Inspirational Quotes About Education

Teaching and learning can be tough, and sometimes we can lose sight of just how important and rewarding education truly is. Luckily, there are many famous quotes about education that can inspire and motivate us, and remind us why education matters. Here’s a collection of 50 of our favorite quotes about education.

Famous Quotes About Education

“education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – nelson mandela.

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

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

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” – Carl Rogers

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” – Edward Everett

“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” – Mark Twain

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William S. Burroughs

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein

“Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” – Hebrew Proverb

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” – John Holt

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford

“They know enough who know how to learn.” – Henry Adams

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” – Socrates

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer

“Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.” – Christine Gregoire

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius

“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.” – John Locke

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams

“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” – Daniel J. Boorstin

“Education is the art of making man ethical.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” – Aristotle

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” – C.S. Lewis

“A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren

“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

“Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.” – Sir Anthony Seldon

“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” – Helen Keller

“Education is the mother of leadership.” – Wendell Willkie

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” – John F. Kennedy

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” – Albert Einstein

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Education is all a matter of building bridges.” – Ralph Ellison

“A good education is like a savings account; the more you put into it, the richer you are.” – Anonymous

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” – Plato

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think.” – James Beattie

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Education is the bedrock of social and economic development. Throughout history, philosophers like Aristotle and Plato recognized the importance of education. Use these famous education quotes to inspire others to follow the path of knowledge. It is only through education that we can hope to eradicate social evils.

Quotes About Formal Education

Some of the greatest thinkers believe that access to formal education is the key to equality and social justice. Many of those thinkers, including Horace Mann and Thomas Jefferson, founded schools and universities to provide the type of education they espoused. Here are some of their thoughts on formal education.

Horace Mann: "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

Aristotle: "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Thomas Jefferson: "Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both."

Benjamin Franklin: "Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

Helen Keller:  "The highest result of education is tolerance."

Victor Hugo: "He who opens a school door closes a prison."

Malala Yousafzai: “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” 

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

Quotes About Informal Learning

Many great thinkers believe that formal learning in a school setting is less valuable than experience and informal learning. Some even believe that formal education can slow down or warp the process of discovery and learning. Here are some of their thoughts.

Jim Rohn:  "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

Albert Einstein: " Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

Oscar Wilde:  "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Galileo Galilei:  "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” 

Quotes About Teachers and Teaching

Teaching has always been considered one of the most important professions. Over time, the actual day-to-day experience of teaching and learning has changed. The basic purpose and outcome, however, remain the same.

C. S. Lewis: "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts."

Henry Brooks Adams: "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Ralph Waldo Emerson:  "The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

William Arthur Ward: “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” 

Nikos Kazantzakis: “True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.” 

Aristotle: “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” 

Henry Brooks Adams: "Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops."

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Whether you’re a teacher or a student, a new school year is an exciting time. These education quotes will get you ready to enjoy teaching and learning anytime.

School pushes us out of our comfort zone, teaches us to dream big, and encourages us to achieve our potential.

In celebration of all the amazing things that education, we’ve put together a list of the best quotes about school, learning, and teaching.

So whether you’re a parent, student, or teacher – we’ve got you covered as you get ready for another year of school.

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Top 10 Education Quotes

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates

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

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Oprah Winfrey

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

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration . Bill Frist

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Herbert Spencer

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett 

Quotes about Education

Whether you’re at the beginning of a new year or semester of learning, or aren’t quite sure where your knowledge will take you next – look no further than these inspiring education quotes.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Ernest Dimnet

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes

Only the educated are free. Epictetus

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. Plato

It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling. Murray N. Rothbard

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin Fisher

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

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking

Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. George Carlin

Even the genius asks questions. Tupac Shakur

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers

Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do. Bruce Lee

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. Lewis

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein

Development is a series of rebirths. Maria Montessori

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. Buddha

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. Mark Twain

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. W.B. Yeats

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. Sir Claus Moser

Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle

They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. Muriel Spark

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn

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

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller

Learning Quotes

Live as if you will die tomorrow. Learn as if you will live forever. Mahatma Gandhi

The learning process continues until the day you die. Kirk Douglas

The doer alone learneth. Friedrich Nietzsche

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first. Ray Congdon

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. Wendell Berry

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. Voltaire

Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go! Dr. Seuss

Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work. William Crawford

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb

The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. B.B. King

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid. G.K. Chesterton

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Henry Ford

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. Thomas Szasz

Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. Harry S. Truman

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. Claude Bernard

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. Vernon Howard

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world. Eric Hoffer

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. Claude Bernard

Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman

I’m still learning. Michelangelo

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. Michel Legrand

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle

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School Quotes

A new desk, a handful of freshly sharpened pencils, the first page of a new workbook… there are no days quite like school days!

From Kindergarten to college, celebrate all stages of education and their role in shaping our futures with these great school quotes.

In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. Tom Bodett

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school. Terrance Deal

We don’t stop going to school when we graduate . Carol Burnett

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work. Richard Livingstone

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. Harold Howe

School made us ‘literate’ but did not teach us to read for pleasure. Ambeth Ocampo

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E.M. Forster

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. Robert T. Kiosaki

The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. Dr. Seuss

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. Chuck Grassley

Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials is like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing. Madeline Hunter

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. Agnes Repplierg

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. Og Mandino

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

School is a place that provides education, and education is the key to life. Unknown

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. John Taylor Gatto

I’m not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. Emma Watson

School prepares you for the real world… which also bites. Jim Benton

There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. Ray Bradbury

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book for everything. Robert Frost

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. George Evans

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.Margaret Atwood

Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. Roy T. Bennett

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. Stanley Kubrick

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year. Henry Ford

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else. James E. Faust

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun. Josephine Baker

Education begins at home . You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him. Geoffrey Holder

Teaching Quotes

Teachers have the amazing power of being able to inspire young minds.

Celebrate those who help children and young people achieve their potential with these quotes about teachers and teaching.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage . A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential. John C. Maxwell

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world. Malala Yousafzai

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson. John Henrik Clarke

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Cicero

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C.S. Lewis

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. Ruth Beechick

Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. John Holt

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. Frank Herbert

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor

Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Francis Keppel

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge. Brad Sherman

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. Joseph Campbell

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. Solomon Ortiz

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers

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This is the best quote for education The quote which i love in this list is “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

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Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.

I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.

The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life.

Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

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.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

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.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

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The Best Quotes About Education

A list of the best education quotes and sayings , including the names of each speaker or author when available. This list is sorted by popularity, so only the most famous education quotes are at the top. The authors of these historic education quotes are displayed next to each quote, so if you see one you like be sure to check out other inspirational education quotes from that same writer.

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Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune., shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life., only the educated are free., an education obtained with money is worse than no education at all, we are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. all that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education., the mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled., the world is run by c students., without education, you're not going anywhere in this world., our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. the human mind is our fundamental resource., to educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society., education is not received. it is achieved., the child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced., education is hanging around until you've caught on., a human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated., if an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. to be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks., talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours., a college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it., an education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. it's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't..

Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.

What does education often do it makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook., i have never let my schooling interfere with my education., school is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you., education is the best provision for old age., i am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive., the great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas., what sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul., life is my college. may i graduate well, and earn some honors., education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations..

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

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15 Famous Writers on the Perils of a Formal Education

And why libraries > classrooms.

Students all over the country are beginning to head back to school, and some, I imagine, aren’t too happy about it. If that’s you, you’re in good company: lots of famous writers hated school, too. Writers are usually assumed to be highly-educated types, and many are, of course. But they’re not always educated in the way you might think—some of the English language’s most famous authors were less-than-great in the classroom, but had the creative skills (and perhaps some out-of-the-box ways of thinking) to make up for it. So, to ease the pain—or temper the joy, if you’re one of those—of starting school, I tracked down what a few great writers had to say on their own experiences with formal education (or lack thereof), and in some cases, on the dangers of relying too much on the classroom to figure out how to live in the world. The overwhelming message I get from the below is this: school is all very well and good, but it’s not going to teach you what you really need to know, because actually, only you can figure out what that is. Probably, though, you’ll get there faster if you spend some time in the library. Take it from Ray Bradbury, to start with:

“Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”  – Ray Bradbuy , to The New York Times .

“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.”  – Ray Bradbury , in an interview with Sam Weller

“I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”  – Isaac Asimov in I, Asimov

“[My mother] said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.”  – Maya Angelou in  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“You must never let schooling interfere with education.”  –often attributed to Mark Twain , but actually written first by Grant Allen .

“But how many pretentious little kids have we been able to develop through progressive education! We can turn out a hell of a lot of these. I once taught at Bard College, where the students were highly articulate, some of them highly imaginative and creative. But many were utterly unprepared by their education to live in this world without extensive aid. What I’m trying to say is that it is not that we are all estranged from our backgrounds and given skills that don’t apply to the real world, but that something basically wrong is happening to our educational system. We are missing the target, and all of our children are suffering as a result. To be ill-clothed, ill-housed and ill-fed is not the only way to suffer deprivation.

I don’t know what intelligence is. But this I do know, both from life and from literature: whenever you reduce human life to two plus two equals four, the human element within the human animal says, “I don’t give a damn.” You can work on that basis, but the kids cannot. If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then I will not only drop my defenses and my hostility, but I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.”  – Ralph Ellison , in a 1963 lecture , the entirety of which is really worth a read

“Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”  – Oscar Wilde , in A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated , first published anonymously in 1894

“I’ve often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they’re on, why they don’t fall off it, how much time they’ve probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on. I tried to write one once. It was called Welcome to Earth . But I got stuck on explaining why we don’t fall off the planet. Gravity is just a word. It doesn’t explain anything. If I could get past gravity, I’d tell them how we reproduce, how long we’ve been here, apparently, and a little bit about evolution. And one thing I would really like to tell them about is cultural relativity. I didn’t learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn’t a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. I didn’t find that our for sure until I was in the graduate school of the University of Chicago. It was terribly exciting.”  – Kurt Vonnegut , in a 1963 interview with Playboy

“Thank goodness, my education was neglected; I was never sent to school . . . it would have rubbed off some of the originality (if I had not died of shyness or been killed with over pressure).”  – Beatrix Potter , in a 1929 letter to a friend

“I despised school—or schools, for I was always changing from one to another—and year after year failed the simplest subjects out of loathing and boredom. I played hooky at least twice a week and was always running away from home. Once I ran away with a friend who lived across the street—a girl much older than myself who in later life achieved a certain fame. Because she murdered a half-dozen people and was electrocuted at Sing Sing. Someone wrote a book about her. They called her the Lonely Hearts Killer. But there, I’m wandering again. Well, finally, I guess I was around twelve, the principal at the school I was attending paid a call on my family, and told them that in his opinion, and in the opinion of the faculty, I was “subnormal.” He thought it would be sensible, the humane action, to send me to some special school equipped to handle backward brats. Whatever they may have privately felt, my family as a whole took official umbrage, and in an effort to prove I wasn’t subnormal, pronto packed me off to a psychiatric study clinic at a university in the East where I had my I.Q. inspected. I enjoyed it thoroughly and —guess what?—came home a genius, so proclaimed by science. I don’t know who was the more appalled: my former teachers, who refused to believe it, or my family, who didn’t want to believe it— they’d just hoped to be told I was a nice normal boy. Ha ha!”  – Truman Capote , in a 1957 interview with The Paris Review

“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson , in New England Reformers , 1844

“I wasn’t smart enough [for college]. By that I mean I lacked a particular kind of organizational discipline or intelligence. I had the reading under my belt. I had the analytical chops. I was a magpie for picking up facts and dates. But to do well at college—there’s no way around it—you have to be able to organize your time, which I could not do to save myself. I’d get started on one thing, and twenty minutes later I’d be off on another, in the midst of which I’d pick up some book on calculus or archaeology or Galois theory and read the odd hundred pages about that. I was intellectually all over the place. I was writing music, directing plays, acting in them, singing in folk groups, choreographing dances, and if I had a paper due next week, there was at most a one-out-of-five chance I would finish it—some of which, yes, was the bad side of Dalton, because they’d been fairly accepting of that sort of thing and had often been willing to cut me some slack. But I didn’t have the discipline. Still, not once did I ever think, Hey, I’m superior to all of this! I never thought, I know more than these people. When I flunked out, I flunked out miserably, spectacularly, and I was mortified. I thought, The truth is out, I’m an idiot. Now everyone knows.

It took me a while to realize that if a teacher had taken me aside and said, “Come on, Chip, sit down, let’s talk, this is how you have to do this,” probably I would have learned how to negotiate it. But nobody did.”  – Samuel R. Delany , in a 2011 interview with The Paris Review

“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent then disturbing and chaperoning their parents.”  – George Bernard Shaw

“Let none say that I am scoffing at uneducated people; it is not their uneducation but their education that I scoff at. Let none mistake this for a sneer at the half-educated; what I dislike is the educated half. But I dislike it, not because I dislike education, but because, given the modern philosophy or absence of philosophy, education is turned against itself, destroying that very sense of variety and proportion which it is the object of education to give. No man who worships education has got the best out of education; no man who sacrifices everything to education is even educated. . . . What is wrong is a neglect of principle; and the principle is that, without a gentle contempt for education, no gentleman’s education is complete.”  – G.K. Chesterson in The Illustrated London News , 1930

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”  – Henry David Thoreau ,  Journal , 1850

“I never really expected to find myself giving advice to people graduating from an establishment of higher education. I never graduated from any such establishment. I never even started at one. I escaped from school as soon as I could, when the prospect of four more years of enforced learning before I’d become the writer I wanted to be was stifling.

I got out into the world, I wrote, and I became a better writer the more I wrote, and I wrote some more, and nobody ever seemed to mind that I was making it up as I went along, they just read what I wrote and they paid for it, or they didn’t, and often they commissioned me to write something else for them.

Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family, who attended Universities, were cured of long ago.”  – Neil Gaiman , in his commencement address to the University of the Arts class of 2012

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70+ Best Education Quotes by Famous People

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Some kids don’t see the value of education – yet. As parents and educators, it is our job to make sure that they take the right path and hopefully have a successful life. Education is can define a person’s character and future. More so, quality education can make a lasting change and impact on society.

We decided to compile 70+ of the best education quotes by famous and important people in history. We included education quotes especially for children and women too. We hope that these wise sayings will inspire and motivate you and your child to live a life of learning.

Children’s Education Quotes

These inspirational quotes on children’s education will help foster their love of learning.

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” ― Plato

“[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” ― Jim Henson

 “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” ― Aristotle

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

“We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” Chinese proverb

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

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.” ― Steven Spielberg

“Learning is the key to success in life and there is no limit to skills children can acquire.”

“The future starts with the next generation. With education, we are empowering our youth and deciding what kind of world they will live in.”

Women Education Quotes

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” ― Malala Yousafzai

“Education is very important. The more education a woman has the more she is looked down upon. Nothing comes easy for a woman, and that is why she is tough. She has to earn everything she works hard for—that’s fine, and honestly, it isn’t an issue. Hard work grooms a woman to be a powerful force.” ― Charlena E. Jackson

“No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.” ― Michelle Obama

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” ― Brigham Young

“I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” ― Malala Yousafzai

“If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you’re in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it’s because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you’ll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don’t have education.” ― Malcolm X

“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.” ― Kavita N. Ramdas

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf

“Education can never stop! “The more we read, the more we learn. The more we learn, the fuller life seems.” – L.M Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“If girls and women have good education and opportunities to go on in life, they can help to break down the walls of envy and misunderstanding, to give new meaning to culture and history, to establish a sense of personal security for individual men and women, not just a collective security that crushes individuality.” Nelson Mandela

Reading and Books Quotes

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ― Groucho Marx

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert

“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goes out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.” ― Cicero

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ― Mark Twain

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ― Albert Einstein

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ― Charles W. Eliot

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Reading is the key that unlocks the door of creativity.” – Agatha Christie

“Reading has always been the best form of entertainment. There’s something special about immersing yourself in another world and the characters you meet there.”

Quotes About the Importance of Education

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

“Education is a right, not a privilege; it is an opportunity, not an entitlement.” -Arne Duncan

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. ― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ― Aristotle

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” ― Thomas Paine

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” ― Robert Frost

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” ― C.S. Lewis

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.” ― Charlotte Brontë

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” ― Aristotle

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.” ― Stanley Fish

“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.” ― Confucius

“It’s a universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Andy McIntyre

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ― Jim Rohn

“Learning is never easy, but it’s worth every second.”

“”The question is not how will you work if you lose your job; the question is how will you find one if you don’t have an education?” – Tony Bennet

Inspirational Education Quotes

“Invest in knowledge and keep it close to you. The wise store up treasures where moth of rust cannot corrupt them or thieves break in and steal them” – Proverbs 22: 8

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” ― Mark Twain

““We are all born with genius, but most of us are squelched, either by our parents, our teachers, our society. We go to great schools but they do not teach us the thing we need to know: how to live.” -Robin Williams

“Education is not the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire.” -W.B. Yeats

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” ― Oscar Wilde

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” ― Maya Angelou

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” ― Oscar Wilde

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ― Aristotle

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ― Confucius

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” ― Plutarch

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” ― Malcolm X

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” ― Albert Einstein

“The most important single ingredient in any successful educational system is . . . good teachers.”- David Sarnoff

“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.” ― Heath L. Buckmaster

“I don’t want to believe. I want to know.” ― Carl Sagan

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” ― Mark Twain

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

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.” Carl Rogers

“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” David M. Burns

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” Lloyd Alexander

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John R. Wooden

“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” Abraham Maslow

“Great minds get to learn from other great minds at school”

“If something has deep meaning for you, understand more about it. Teach others what you’ve learnt with”

“Truly, education is the most powerful tool for change we have!⁣”

“When you teach another person, you don’t teach them the subject that is in your head. You instead teach them how to think.” – Susan Sippey

“Education brings great changes in the lives of those who strive the most.” – Karl Potter

“For teachers, knowledge is not a fixed commodity that can be easily transmitted by rote. It is a fluid, complex, and interactive process of exchange.” – Chinua Achebe

Kate is mom of two rambunctious boys and a self-proclaimed super nerd. With a background in neuroscience, she is passionate about sharing her love of all things STEM with her kids. She loves to find creative ways to teach kids computer science and geek out about coding and math.  She has authored several books on coding for kids which can be found at Hachette UK .

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A critical take on education and schooling

The 50 great books on education

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I have often argued that I would not let any teacher into a school unless – as a minimum – they had read, carefully and well, the three great books on education: Plato’s Republic, Rousseau’s Émile and Dewey’s Democracy and Education. There would be no instrumental purpose in this, but the struggle to understand these books and the thinking involved in understanding them would change teachers and ultimately teaching.

These are the three great books because each is sociologically whole. They each present a description and arguments for an education for a particular and better society. You do not have to agree with these authors. Plato’s tripartite education for a just society ruled over by philosopher kings; Rousseau’s education through nature to establish the social contract and Dewey’s relevant, problem-solving democratic education for a democratic society can all be criticised. That is not the point. The point is to understand these great works. They constitute the intellectual background to any informed discussion of education.

What of more modern works? I used to recommend the “blistering indictment” of the flight from traditional liberal education that is Melanie Phillips’s All Must Have Prizes, to be read alongside Tom Bentley’s Learning Beyond the Classroom: Education for a Changing World, which is a defence of a wider view of learning for the “learning age”. These two books defined the debate in the 1990s between traditional education by authoritative teachers and its rejection in favour of a new learning in partnership with students.

Much time and money is spent on teacher training and continuing professional development and much of it is wasted. A cheaper and better way of giving student teachers and in-service teachers an understanding of education would be to get them to read the 50 great works on education.

The books I have identified, with the help of members of the Institute of Ideas’ Education Forum, teachers and colleagues at several universities, constitute an attempt at an education “canon”.

What are “out” of my list are textbooks and guides to classroom practice. What are also “out” are novels and plays. But there are some great literary works that should be read by every teacher: Charles Dicken’s Hard Times – for Gradgrind’s now much-needed celebration of facts; D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow – for Ursula Brangwen’s struggle against her early child-centred idealism in the reality of St Philips School; and Alan Bennett’s The History Boys – for Hector’s role as the subversive teacher committed to knowledge.

I hope I have produced a list of books, displayed here in alphabetical order, that are held to be important by today’s teachers. I make no apology for including the book I wrote with Kathryn Ecclestone, The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education because it is an influential critical work that has produced considerable controversy. If you disagree with this, or any other of my choices, please add your alternative “canonical” books on education.

Michael W. Apple – Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age (1993)

Hannah Arendt – Between Past and Future (1961), for the essay “The Crisis in Education” (1958)

Matthew Arnold – Culture and Anarchy (1867-9)

Robin Barrow – Giving Teaching Back to the Teachers (1984)

Tom Bentley – Learning Beyond The Classroom: Education for a Changing World (1998)

Allan Bloom – The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students (1987)

Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron – Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture (1977)

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis – Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life (1976)

Jerome Bruner – The Process of Education (1960)

John Dewey – Democracy and Education (1916)

Margaret Donaldson – Children’s Minds (1978)

JWB Douglas – The Home and the School (1964)

Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes – The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education (2008)

Harold Entwistle – Antonio Gramsci: Conservative Schooling for Radical Politics (1979).

Paulo Freire – Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968/1970)

Frank Furedi – Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating (2009)

Helene Guldberg – Reclaiming Childhood (2009)

ED Hirsch Jnr. – The Schools We Need And Why We Don’t Have Them (1999)

Paul H Hirst – Knowledge and the Curriculum (1974) For the essay which appears as Chapter 3 ‘Liberal Education and the Nature of Knowledge’ (1965)

John Holt – How Children Fail (1964)

Eric Hoyle – The Role of the Teacher (1969)

James Davison Hunter – The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age without Good or Evil (2000)

Ivan Illich – Deschooling Society (1971)

Nell Keddie (Ed.) – Tinker, Taylor: The Myth of Cultural Deprivation (1973)

John Locke – Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1692)

John Stuart Mill – Autobiography (1873)

Sybil Marshall – An Experiment in Education (1963)

Alexander Sutherland Neil – Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing (1960)

John Henry Newman – The Idea of a University (1873)

Michael Oakeshott – The Voice of Liberal Learning (1989) In particular for the essay “Education: The Engagement and Its Frustration” (1972)

Anthony O’ Hear – Education, Society and Human Nature: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1981)

Richard Stanley Peters – Ethics and Education (1966)

Melanie Phillips – All Must Have Prizes (1996)

Plato – The Republic (366BC?)

Plato – Protagoras (390BC?) and Meno (387BC?)

Neil Postman – The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1995)

Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner – Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969)

Herbert Read – Education Through Art (1943)

Carl Rogers – Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Become (1969)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Émile or “on education” (1762)

Bertrand Russell – On Education (1926)

Israel Scheffler – The Language of Education (1960)

Brian Simon – Does Education Matter? (1985) Particularly for the paper “Why No Pedagogy in England?” (1981)

JW Tibble (Ed.) – The Study of Education (1966)

Lev Vygotsky – Thought and Language (1934/1962)

Alfred North Whitehead – The Aims of Education and other essays (1929)

Paul E. Willis – Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (1977)

Alison Wolf – Does Education Matter? Myths about Education and Economic Growth (2002)

Michael FD Young (Ed) – Knowledge and Control: New Directions for the Sociology of Education (1971)

Michael FD Young – Bringing Knowledge Back In: From Social Constructivism to Social Realism in the Sociology of Education (2007)

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• “Technology is not a silver bullet. It’s only as good as the teachers … using it as one more tool to help inspire, and teach, and work through problems.” — Barack Obama
• “When I wanted to learn something outside of school as a kid, cracking open my World Book encyclopedia was the best I could do. Today, all you have to do is go online.” — Bill Gates
• “If kids can be super engaged in video games, there’s a way for them to be super engaged in education as well.” — Elon Musk
• “There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.” — Anant Agarwal
• “The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.” — Henry Ford
• “Employees will continue to gain more positive attitudes toward their work because of the availability of personalized training.” — Ellis and Kuznia, Corporate eLearning Impact on Employees
• “One of the most important areas we can develop as professionals is competence in accessing and sharing knowledge.” — Connie Malamed
• “If you continue training the same way you’ve always trained, don’t expect to get better results.” — Jim Crapko
• “To unlock the true potential of e-learning to train successful employees, it needs to be people-centered.” — Simon Greany
• “The most difficult limitation to overcome when implementing eLearning is resistance. eLearning will not be successful in a company culture that is opposed to change.” — Ellis and Kuznia, Corporate eLearning Impact on Employees
• “In times where small instructor-led classrooms tend to be the exception, electronic learning solutions can offer more collaboration and interaction with experts and peers, as well as a higher success rate than the live alternative.” — Keith Bachman
• “At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.” — Anant Agarwal
• “So far technology has hardly changed formal education at all. But a lot of people, including me, think this is the next place where the Internet will surprise people in how it can improve things—especially in combination with face-to-face learning.” — Bill Gates
• “…Successful and sustainable gamification can convert customers into fans, turn work into fun, or make learning a joy. The potential is enormous.” — Brian Burke
• “Online learning is fundamentally student-centered, due to the easy implementation of student discussion boards and peer grading systems.” — Sander Tamm
• “Most of the important things in life I learned online, at work, from experience, or by talking to people.” — Marushia Dark
• “The students of the future will demand the learning support that is appropriate for their situation or context. Nothing more, nothing less. And they want it at the moment the need arises. Not sooner, not later. Mobile devices will be a key technology for providing that learning support.” — Dr. Marcus Specht
• “Online learning provides fantastic flexibility, among other benefits, and aids in making the task of arranging development opportunities far easier.” — Dr. Sharon Jones
• “What if we…are missing more e-learning specific definitions that are independent of face-to-face teaching, such as democratization and scalability? And as a last mental exercise, what if we started evaluating face-to-face instructions on these objectives?” — Noesgaard and Ørngreen, The Effectiveness of E-Learning
• “eLearning is changing. And, we will see new models, new technologies, and designs emerge. So, let’s drop the “e” – or at least give it a new and wider definition.” — Elliot Masie
• “The number one factor in engagement is relevance, because relevance drives out resistance.” — Clive Shepherd
• “Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing prepackaged assignments, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write reflectively about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives.” — Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann
• “You can’t teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.” — Seymour Papert
• “Boring e-learning fails to engage the learner’s mind, and without that basic motivation and action, nothing can happen even when the learner goes through all the required motions.” — Ethan Edwards
• “I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do, and do not fear anything.” — Rita Levi
• “The most important principle for designing lively eLearning is to see eLearning design not as information design but as designing an experience.” — Cathy Moore
• “Teaching in the Internet age means we must teach tomorrow’s skills today.” — Dr. Jennifer Fleming
• “Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.” — Heidi-Hayes Jacobs
• “eLearning shouldn’t be a casual joy ride on a Sunday afternoon with the cruise control engaged. The sole purpose of eLearning is to teach.” — Christopher Palm
• “The most profound words will remain unread unless you can keep the learner engaged. You can’t see their eyes to know if they got it so … say it, show it, write it, demo it and link it to an activity.” —   James Bates

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10 Inspiring Education Quotes by Black Leaders

Are you ready to embark on a journey of inspiration and enlightenment? We’re diving into a collection of wisdom crafted by remarkable black leaders who’ve left an indelible mark on the world of education.

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These words resonate across time and space, sparking curiosity and kindling the desire for learning. So, stick around with us. Let’s explore these 30 electrifying education quotes by black leaders that’ll light up your mind like fireworks on the Fourth of July! Join our Spotcovery Global Black Community Facebook Group for early access to exclusive content and to share in a lively discussion .

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”

In this quote, B.B. King captures the everlasting value of learning. Once you’ve acquired knowledge, it’s yours forever. No one can steal it or erase it. The knowledge becomes a part of you, shaping your thoughts, decisions, and perspectives. 

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 Claud Williams, Founder of Dream Nation

“If you don’t laugh at your dream it is not big enough.”

Claud Williams’ quote carries a profound message. It highlights the importance of aiming for audacious dreams that initially seem almost unbelievable. The quote encourages you to push your boundaries, dream boldly, and find the courage to chase ambitions that make us smile in awe at their magnitude.

Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

“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.”

Dr King brilliantly breaks down education’s purpose. It’s not just about memorizing facts but about sharpening our minds to analyze, question, and understand deeply. 

Pairing intelligence with good character molds you into a responsible, empathetic individual. In other words, education isn’t just about knowing stuff; it’s about becoming a better human being.

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H.E. John Agyekum Kufuor (Ghana)

“We must do our best to ensure that the children of Africa have a solid foundation upon which to build their future.”

Kufuor’s quote highlights the responsibility to provide the younger generation with a strong educational start. African children need a quality education to pave the way for their future accomplishments. It’s an investment in Africa’s potential greatness.

Malcolm X 

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”

Malcolm X’s words remind us that education isn’t just about today; it’s an investment in our future. Just like a traveling passport opens doors to new horizons, education equips you to navigate the unknown. 

It’s a ticket to opportunities you can’t even imagine yet. So, buckle up and study hard – your future self will thank you.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey

“Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.”

This is a quote by a Jamaican-born and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) . It suggests that true liberation and empowerment begin with freeing people’s minds from limiting beliefs and oppressive ideologies. 

Nelson Mandela (South Africa)

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

Mandela’s quote packs a punch. Education isn’t just a tool; it’s a weapon for positive change. It equips you with the knowledge and critical thinking needed to challenge injustice, bring about progress, and reshape the world for the better.

Oprah Winfrey

“Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world.”

Education isn’t just a personal gain; it’s a force that moves mountains of ignorance, builds bridges of understanding, and reshapes the world. Oprah Winfrey ‘s quote is a call to action, a reminder that education isn’t passive. 

Thurgood Marshall

“Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.”

Just as any strong building needs a solid foundation, your future achievements rely on a sturdy education. Thurgood Marshall’s quote emphasizes that education isn’t just a phase; it’s the very bedrock of one’s aspirations. So, when you’re studying, remember you’re building your future.

Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso)

“Educate the people and you would have peaceful revolutions.” 

Sankara’s words echo the power of education in driving positive change. When minds are enlightened, societies can transform without violence. In other words, education is the catalyst for revolutions rooted in understanding and progress.

In these words of wisdom from remarkable black leaders , the power of education shines bright. Let these education quotes by black leaders trigger your passion for learning, reminding you that education is not just a tool but a transformative force, shaping our minds, futures, and world. You get books from Amazon to learn more about black educators and leaders.

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170 Writing Quotes by Famous Authors for Every Occasion

When you're feeling stuck on your novel, an important thing to remember is that we've all been there in the past. That's right — even the J.K Rowling's and Ernest Hemingway's of this world. Which is why it's always a great idea to turn to your most famous peers (and their writing quotes) for inspiration.

Without further ado, here are 170 writing quotes  to guide you through every stage of writing. ( Yes! We've added more since we first published this post! )

The number one piece of advice that most authors have for other authors is to read, read, read. Here’s why.

1. “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools ) to write. Simple as that.” — Stephen King

2. “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” — Annie Proulx

3. “Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.” — Eudora Welty

4. “Read, read, read. Read everything  —  trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.” — William Faulkner

5. “I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

6. “The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.” — Ernest Gaines

7. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.” — Samuel Johnson

8. “Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” ― Lisa See

9. “One sure window into a person’s soul is his reading list.” — Mary B. W. Tabor

The well of inspiration, we’re afraid, often does run dry. Here are the writing quotes to replenish it and, hopefully, remind you that there might be a story idea waiting for you just around the corner of life.

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10. "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." — Toni Morrison

11. “Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” — Orson Scott

12. “Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.” — Stephen King

13. “Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.” — Mark Twain

14. “When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.” — George Orwell

15. “Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” — Natalie Goldberg

16. “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” — Madeleine L'Engle

17. “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” — Henry David Thoreau

18. “Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.” — William S. Burroughs

19. “Write what should not be forgotten.” — Isabel Allende

20. “The story must strike a nerve in me. My heart should start pounding when I hear the first line in my head. I start trembling at the risk.” — Susan Sontag

21. “Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. I like a mystery, as you may have noticed.” — J.K. Rowling

22. “As for ‘Write what you know,’ I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

23. “I’m very lucky in that I don’t understand the world yet. If I understood the world, it would be harder for me to write these books.” — Mo Willems

24. “Ideas are cheap. It’s the execution that is all important.” — George R.R. Martin

25. “If you wait for inspiration to write you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter.” — Dan Poynter

Now, finding your "voice" is not as simple as entering a nationally-televised competition on NBC ( nyuk nyuk! ). Yet your voice will define you as a writer, and these famous writers have plenty of tips and writing quotes for you when it comes to finding it.

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26. “To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.” — Allen Ginsberg

27. “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” — Jack Kerouac

28. “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” —Robert Frost

29. “It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.” — P.D. James

30. “Voice is not just the result of a single sentence or paragraph or page. It’s not even the sum total of a whole story. It’s all your work laid out across the table like the bones and fossils of an unidentified carcass.” — Chuck Wendig

31. “If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.” — Elmore Leonard

32. “Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.” — Meg Rosoff

33. “I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

34. “Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.” — Virginia Woolf

35. “Everywhere I go, I’m asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.” — Flannery O’Connor

36. “There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn’t because the book is not there and worth being written — it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and, if you fail to find that form, the story will not tell itself.” — Mark Twain

37. “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” — Louis L’Amour

38. “First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.” — Ray Bradbury

39. “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” — Ernest Hemingway

40. “Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.” — Mark Twain

41. “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of job: It’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.” — Neil Gaiman

42. “It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.” — Ernest Hemingway

43. “It doesn’t matter how many book ideas you have if you can’t finish writing your book.” — Joe Bunting

44. “If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” — Margaret Atwood

45. “A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.” — Sidney Sheldon

46. “I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on until I am.” — Jane Austen

47. "Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good." — William Faulkner

48. “One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing — writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.” — Lawrence Block

49. “Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.” — John Steinbeck

50. “You can fix anything but a blank page.” — Nora Roberts

51. “I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” — Pearl S. Buck

52. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed.” — Ernest Hemingway

Don’t get discouraged if you get this far and you’re thinking that your first draft is rather poor. These writing quotes are reminders that it’s just part of the process.

53. “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” — Terry Pratchett

54. “Get through a draft as quickly as possible.” — Joshua Wolf Shenk

55. “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” — Douglas Adams

56. “The first draft of everything is shit.” — Ernest Hemingway

57. “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” — Frank Herbert

58. “I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them — without a thought about publication — and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.” — Anne Tyler

59. “I just give myself permission to suck. I delete about 90 percent of my first drafts, so it doesn’t really matter much if on a particular day I write beautiful and brilliant prose that will stick in the minds of my readers forever, because there’s a 90 percent chance I’m just going to delete whatever I write anyway. I find this hugely liberating.” — John Green

60. “Be willing to write really badly.” — Jennifer Egan

61. “On first drafts: It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut — it’s the story undressed, standing up in nothing but its socks and undershorts.” — Stephen King

62. “I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.” — Tom Clancy

63. “Anyone who says writing is easy isn’t doing it right.” — Amy Joy

64. “You fail only if you stop writing.” — Ray Bradbury

65. “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.” — Isaac Asimov

66. “Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.” — Ray Bradbury

67. “You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” ― Octavia E. Butler

68. “I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it.” — Chinua Achebe

69. “The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.” — Augusten Burroughs

70. “It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.” — Gerald Brenan

71. “Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.” — James Baldwin

72. “You just have to go on when it is worst and most helpless — there is only one thing to do with a novel and that is go straight on through to the end of the damn thing.” — Ernest Hemingway

73. “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” — Kurt Vonnegut

74. “The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-it on the wall in front of my desk saying ‘Faire et se taire’ from Flaubert. Which I translate for myself as ‘Shut up and get on with it.’” — Helen Simpson

75. “I’ve been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can’t really say where the desire came from; I’ve always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down.” — J.K. Rowling

76. “Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer.” — Ray Bradbury

77. “It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.” — Virginia Woolf

78. “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” — Richard Bach

“Write drunk, edit sober” might be one of the most famous writing quotes about editing, but we can’t all outdrink Ernest Hemingway. Which is why these other words of wisdom and writing quotes exist!

79. “You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” ― Jodi Picoult

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80. “When your story is ready for a rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.” — Stephen King

81. “The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.” — Dominick Dunne

82. “Editing might be a bloody trade, but knives aren’t the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.” — Blake Morrison

83. “The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.” — E.B. White

84. “You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you, and we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.” — Arthur Plotnik

85. “Half my life is an act of revision.” — John Irving

86. “I'm all for the scissors. I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.” — Truman Capote

87. “It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.” — C. J. Cherryh

88. “I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.” ― Don Roff

89. “Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we'.” — Mark Twain

90. “So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.” ― Dr. Seuss

91. “Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” — Henry David Thoreau

92. “I would write a book, or a short story, at least three times — once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say. Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one's fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.” — Bernard Malamud

93. “No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.” — Russell Lynes

94. “Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.” — Annie Dillard

95. “No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.” — H.G. Wells

96. “A writer is a world trapped in a person.” — Victor Hugo

97. “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” — Thomas Mann

98. “People say, ‘What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?’ I say, they don’t really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they’re gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.” — R.L. Stine

99. “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.” ― Ernest Hemingway

100. “I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.” — Gustave Flaubert

101. “Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.” — Sylvia Plath

102. “I go out to my little office, where I’ve got a manuscript, and the last page I was happy with is on top. I read that, and it’s like getting on a taxiway. I’m able to go through and revise it and put myself — click — back into that world.” — Stephen King

103. “I think all writing is a disease. You can’t stop it.” — William Carlos Williams

104. “Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.” — Gore Vidal

105. “For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.” — Catherine Drinker Bowen

106. “The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.” — Thomas Mann

107. “Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.” — T.S. Eliot

108. “Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.” — Margaret Chittenden

109. “A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.” — Eugene Ionesco

110. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” — Benjamin Franklin

111. “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.” — Roald Dahl

112. “Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” — Gloria Steinem

From cavemen to our modern day in the 21st-century, we have written our joys and sorrows throughout history. What compels us to write? Here’s what some of the most beloved writers we know have to say.

113. “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” — Anne Frank

114. “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Anais Nin

115. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou

116. “The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.” — Zadie Smith

117. “The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis.” — William Styron

118. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” — Robin Williams

119. “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.” — Aldous Huxley

120. “You can make anything by writing.” — C.S. Lewis

121. “Writers live twice.” —  Natalie Goldberg

122. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” — Winston Churchill

123. “Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.” — Oscar Wilde

124. “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” — Ray Bradbury

125. “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass .” ― Anton Chekhov

126. “My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.” — Anton Chekhov

127. “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” — Somerset Maugham

128. “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” — Stephen King

129. “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” — Mark Twain

130. “Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don’t let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won’t matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.” — Esther Freud

131. “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. [...] All they do is show you've been to college.” — Kurt Vonnegut

132. “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.” — Herman Melville

133. “Write drunk, edit sober.” — Ernest Hemingway

134. “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” — Mark Twain

135. “The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it ­honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.” — Neil Gaiman

136. “Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.” — Jane Yolen

137. “Style means the right word. The rest matters little.” — Jules Renard

138. “My aim in constructing sentences is to make the sentence utterly easy to understand, writing what I call transparent prose. I’ve failed dreadfully if you have to read a sentence twice to figure out what I meant.” — Ken Follett

139. “And one of [the things you learn as you get older] is, you really need less… My model for this is late Beethoven. He moves so strangely and quite suddenly sometimes from place to place in his music, in the late quartets. He knows where he’s going and he just doesn’t want to waste all that time getting there… One is aware of this as one gets older. You can’t waste time.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

140. “ Part 1. I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English — it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don’t let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in . Part 2. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don’t mean utterly, but kill most of them – then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. Part 3. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.” — Mark Twain

“You miss 100% of the shots that you never take — Wayne Gretsky,” as Michael Scott once said. In tribute to this sentiment, these writing quotes help show why it’s important not to let failure or rejection get you down.

141. “You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.” — John Wooden

142. “Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil — but there is no way around them.” — Isaac Asimov

143. “Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn’t feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That’s my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story.” — Jennifer Salaiz

144. “I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.” — Sylvia Plath

145. “I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent, he would be wise to develop a thick hide.” — Harper Lee

147. “I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I’m going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.” — James Lee Burke

148. “This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don’t consider it rejected. Consider that you’ve addressed it ‘to the editor who can appreciate my work’ and it has simply come back stamped ‘Not at this address’. Just keep looking for the right address.” — Barbara Kingsolver

149. “To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.” — Anita Shreve

150. “Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.” — Neil Gaiman

151. “The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.” — William Faulkner

152. “I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours — so enjoy the view.” — Michael York

153. “I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.” — Erica Jong

154. “I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.” — Anita Diamant

155. “I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.” — Louise Brown

156. “I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn’t. I have drawers full of — or I did have — drawers full of rejection slips.” — Fred Saberhagen

157. “An absolutely necessary part of a writer’s equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.” — Irwin Shaw

158. “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” — C. S. Lewis

Why does writing matter? If there’s anyone who might know the answer, it’s the people who write — and continue to write, despite adverse circumstances. Here are a few pennies for their thoughts.

159. “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” — Virginia Woolf

160. “If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.” — Wally Lamb

161. “A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood

162. “If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.” — Martin Luther

163. “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” — Albert Camus

164. “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” — David Foster Wallace

165. “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” — Philip Pullman

166. “All stories have to at least try to explain some small portion of the meaning of life.” — Gene Weingarten

167. “If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.” — Peter Handke

168. “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” — Tom Clancy

169. “If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.” — Lillian Hellman

170. “Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.” — Lev Grossman

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08/05/2019 – 12:28

Here's a quote I absolutely adore: "The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere" [Quote from Gustave Flaubert]

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Famous English Authors and Their Contributions to Literature

Published on: May 2, 2024

The vast scope of literature includes entertaining and enlightening works that span numerous geographic locations, cultural traditions and historical periods. Every category presents its own unique flavor and holds strong literary merit, but English literature has long captivated readers with its compelling themes and vivid descriptions.

It’s difficult to appreciate the true scope and power of English literature without paying homage to the myriad of literary geniuses who have contributed to this impressive body of work. Keep reading for an overview of the most famous English authors, ranging from Middle English poets to contemporary English writers.

The Foundation of English Literature

The term “English literature” is often described as the body of works penned by those living in the British Isles — beginning during the 7th century and extending to the present day. The poem  Beowulf  is often highlighted as the earliest verifiable work of English literature, but it is challenging to date and attribute the works of the 1st millennium.

Middle English helped usher in the literary formats and themes we take for granted today. The transition from Middle English to Early Modern English was marked by two literary masters who were clearly ahead of their time: Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare.

Geoffrey Chaucer and the Middle Ages

Often referred to as the father of English literature,  Geoffrey Chaucer  is best known as the creative force behind  The Canterbury Tales . That said, he penned many other poems and was also a philosopher, an astronomer and a civil servant.

Chaucer’s works were as eclectic as his numerous interests and professional pursuits. Philosophical quandaries were integrated into many of his poems, along with plenty of humor.

During the 1390s, Chaucer set to work on his magnum opus, The Canterbury Tales . Primarily written in verse, these tales center around a group of storytelling pilgrims who engage in a contest as they travel on horseback to a shrine in Canterbury. In addition to being wonderfully entertaining and thought-provoking, this series of stories popularized the use of Middle English in literature.

William Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Era

No discussion of famous English authors would be complete without a deep dive into the fascinating life of  William Shakespeare . Arguably history’s most famous poet and playwright, Shakespeare deserves credit for creating some of the most iconic characters not only in Elizabethan era literature, but of all time. Many of his concepts and even his phrases remain relevant to this day.

Highly prolific, Shakespeare is believed to have penned 38 plays. These include many noteworthy works that remain popular on the stage, in high school classrooms, on the silver screen and beyond:

• Romeo and Juliet
• Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Evolution of the Novel

As one of the most significant literary formats of the last few centuries, the novel has the unique power to transport us to different worlds while helping us form close connections with compelling characters.

While the novel seems like the quintessential form of English literature, its history is rather short compared to English literature as a whole. The origins of the English novel are believed to lie with early works such as  Robinson Crusoe  and  Pilgrim’s Promise . Talented female writers are believed to have brought extra emotional intensity to this format.

Jane Austen and the Rise of Realism

Featuring compelling heroines who seek both romance and self-actualization, Jane Austen’s novels are rife with social commentary. She is, perhaps, best known for the relatable novel Pride & Prejudice . This is one of the world’s most consistently popular novels and is believed to have sold over  200 million copies .  Pride and Prejudice themes like social class and reputation blend with a page-turning plot to achieve almost universal appeal.

But Pride & Prejudice  is just the beginning. Austen wrote many other novels that felt just as relatable, including  Sense & Sensibility ,  Mansfield Park  and  Emma . Readers are still drawn to her work, in part, because her characters feel so realistic. This stems from one of her primary writing techniques, which is weaving characters’ thoughts into the narrative. While common today, this was unusual for the time.

Charles Dickens and Social Commentary

Like Jane Austen,  Charles Dickens  had a knack for creating memorable characters who left a deep impression on readers. Also, like Austen, Dickens incorporated social commentary into his work, although he was more likely to discuss issues such as poverty and inequality.

Dickens was celebrated in his time and has consistently remained among the most popular novelists since his death in 1870. His most noteworthy works include:

• Oliver Twist
• A Christmas Carol
• David Copperfield
• Great Expectations

Through his compassionate work, Dickens introduced readers to the tragic struggles of street children and the infuriating corruption underscoring their plight. It is due to this frequent exploration of poverty and other social ills that similarly themed works are now referred to as “Dickensian.” Beyond this, he was influential simply because he helped to solidify the novel as a popular source of entertainment.

Romanticism and Gothic Literature

The 18th and 19th centuries were dominated by two closely aligned literary movements, Romanticism and Gothic literature. The former represented a clear rejection of order and harmony, instead bringing imaginative and spontaneous attitudes to the forefront.

Creating an atmosphere of terror, Gothic literature delivered a uniquely foreboding feel using fascinating plots involving curses and revenge. The settings were often gloomy with supernatural beings, and often, passionate romances built into these alluring works.

Mary Shelley and the Birth of Science Fiction

When most people think of science fiction, contemporary works involving space or advanced technology come to mind. However, this genre has fascinated readers for centuries. As one of the most notable Gothic literature authors,  Mary Shelley  helped usher in an appreciation of the weird and wonderful through her iconic novel  Frankenstein .

Capturing the still-relevant fear that modern science could usher in destructive forces,  Frankenstein  delved into the potentially horrific consequences of humans playing god. The novel’s writing style was also unique as an epistolary form, featuring a series of letters that functioned as narrative.

The Brontë Sisters and the Exploration of the Psyche

Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë enjoyed writing from a young age. While each presented distinct writing styles, they were linked not only as sisters, but also by their use of emotions to bring their characters to life.

Among the best-known works from this amazing sisterhood includes  Charlotte Brontë’s  Jane Eyre , which emphasized the search for love, independence and self-control. Featuring an intimate first-person style and a surprisingly revolutionary subtext, this novel was ahead of its time.

The destructive power of passion dominated Emily Brontë’s  Wuthering Heights , which featured wonderfully complex characters. A typical  Wuthering Heights analysis will also highlight a setting so gloomy, yet compelling, it feels like a character in and of itself.

Anne Brontë, while not as well-known today, penned one of the earliest works that could arguably be classified as feminist, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. It detailed the effects of abuse while defying social conventions of the time.

The Modernists

Spanning a period beset with huge social and economic changes (between 1890 and World War II), the Modernist era fostered experimental writing styles while integrating then cutting-edge philosophical and psychological concepts. Feelings such as disillusionment pervaded many of these works, although there was also frequently an undercurrent of optimism.

Virginia Woolf and the Stream of Consciousness

Virginia Woolf pioneered the stream of consciousness, emphasizing non-linear writing techniques to capture the nuances of the mind and the unique flow of characters’ thought processes. By focusing on the power of the interior monologue, this approach played a significant role in her well-known novel, Mrs. Dalloway , revealing how memories can influence current perceptions and tackling important themes such as isolation and privilege.

Woolf also wrote many essays on women’s history and politics, including  A Room of One’s Own . Critiquing the patriarchal system and its stifling of female creativity, this impactful essay argued that women could only achieve their full creative potential if they also achieved financial independence.

James Joyce and the Reimagining of the Novel

Irish author  James Joyce  also relied on stream of consciousness techniques while experimenting with absurdism and integrating numerous points of view. With the short story collection  Dubliners,  he hoped to hold up a “nicely polished looking-glass” in the Irish community so that readers could finally recognize (and hopefully address) what the writer regarded as a troubling paralysis.

Joyce took his penchant for experimental writing to a new level with  Ulysses . Structured to align with Homer’s  Odyssey ,  Ulysses  featured a wide array of narrative styles. Over the years,  Ulysses  has gained what  The New Yorker  regards as a “fearsome reputation for difficulty.” Still, there is no denying its status as one of the most influential works of the 20th century.

Post-War British Literature

It is impossible to overstate the influence of World War II on British literature. This was used as a backdrop for many powerful novels and the conceptual framework for both dystopian sagas and historic fiction. There was a distinct bleakness to this period’s most acclaimed works, which decades later, continue to feel hauntingly relevant.

George Orwell and Dystopian Fiction

George Orwell’s initial breakthrough came with the allegorical novella  Animal Farm , which used anthropomorphic animals to reveal the struggle to achieve a free and just society. This novella was inspired by the Bolshevik revolution, with characters representing Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.

Today, Orwell is best known for the  dystopian novel   1984 , set in an imagined future involving three totalitarian states constantly at war. One of these is known as Oceania, in which the brainwashed population shows obedience and reverence for the leader Big Brother. Featuring a direct writing style and bleak language,  1984  had a huge impact on the dystopian genre and contains compelling themes that still resonate.

Doris Lessing and the Exploration of Identity

A true visionary and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing was an outspoken novelist who discussed everything from environmentalism to race relations. She was inspired by her childhood in Africa, with several of her early works set in what was then known as Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

While she penned a variety of poems, essays and short stories, Lessing’s most acclaimed work is easily the novel  The Golden Notebook , which told the story of the divorced writer Anna Wulf and her mental breakdown. Featuring a fragmented style meant to reflect the similar fragmentation of society,  this saga  aimed to reveal how “any kind of single-mindedness, narrowness, obsession, was bound to lead to mental disorder, if not madness.”

Contemporary Voices

During the last few decades, contemporary writers have demonstrated a clear desire to explore social themes such as inequality and racial tension. There is an ongoing effort to push boundaries while playing with unreliable narrators, non-linear timelines and self-conscious formats such as metafiction.

Zadie Smith and the Multicultural Novel

Zadie Smith took the literary scene by storm when she released her much-anticipated debut novel  White Teeth  in 2000. An ambitious multicultural work and an immediate bestseller, this satirical family story played heavily with themes that would continue to prove popular in the decades to come. This includes the often-significant gaps between expectations and reality.

A tale of an accidental friendship between a Bengali Muslim and an Englishman,  White Teeth  is chock full of sass and beautiful storytelling. Smith has since published several other novels and short stories, along with the play  The Wife of Willesden . Many of these works continue to feature culturally diverse characters and reflections on concepts such as identity and authenticity.

Ian McEwan and the Psychological Novel

Initially devoted to Gothic stories,  Ian McEwan  quickly scored the nickname “Ian Macabre” with his bleak writing style. His efforts to shock were found both in his early novels and in the infamous suspension of his play  Solid Geometry . He earned critical acclaim with thought-provoking works such as  Amsterdam  and especially  Atonement , which was later adapted into an award-winning film.

While he often addresses broad themes by examining the impact of social events on private lives, McEwan’s work involves an intimate glimpse at the human psyche, bringing the interior worlds of his detailed characters to life. He has described one of his central goals in vivid terms, to “incite a naked hunger in readers.”

Discover a Wealth of Inspiration From English Literature

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