“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams
“The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
“There are two types of education… One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.” – John Adams
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” – Mark Twain
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
“More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.” – Jonathan Kozol
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison
“The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.” – Martin Buber
“Literacy is the fertilizer needed for development and democracy to take root and grow.” – David Archer
“Only in popular education can man erect the structure of an enduring civilization.” – Andrew Carnegie
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” – Roger Lewin
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.” – Aldous Huxley
“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.” – Anatole France
“According to the Department of Education, one in every five teachers leaves after the first year, and almost twice as many leave within three. If any business had that rate of turnover, someone would do something smart and strategic to fix it. This isn’t any business. It’s the most important business around – the gardeners of the landscape of the human race.” – Anna Quindlen
“We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.” – Baron de Montesquieu
“I view education as not just simply K through 12, I view it as beginning at birth, extending through every life stage and for everybody.” – Bill Bradley
“Life is a continual process of education and reeducation.” – Leonard Leeman
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.” – Lao Tzu
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” – Gertrude Stein
“Real learning comes when the competitive spirit has ceased.” – Krishnamurti
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” – Seneca
“I affirm that to grow as a teacher, I must remain an alert learner.” – Eric Maisel