Education Quotes
This collection of education quotes was inspired by the following quote from William Butler Yeats:
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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“We know that education is everything to our children’s future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.” ~~ Barack Obama
“Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.” ~~ Benjamin Franklin
“Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” ~~ Chinese Proverb
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ~~ Theodore Roosevelt
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” ~~ Aristotle
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” ~~ Jonas Salk
“Habit is the nursery of errors.” ~~ Victor Hugo
“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.” ~~ Henry David Thoreau
