Famous Education Quotes
“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.”
-Erasmus

“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.”

-Erasmus

“Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.”
-Frederick Douglass

“Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.”

-Frederick Douglass

“This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.”
-Maria Montessori

“This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.”

-Maria Montessori

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

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

-William Butler Yeats 

The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

-Jacques Barzun

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
-Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

-Aristotle

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

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

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men,—the balance wheel of the social machinery.

— Horace Mann, 19th-century American educator