50 Great Quotes Illustrate the Power of Education
Celebrating ECPI University’s 50th Anniversary
There are many reasons to go to college. Just read ECPI University’s quarterly news magazine, eConnect, and you’ll meet countless people, each with their own unique story. Yet, they all have one thing in common: the belief that an education is the vehicle through which we can improve ourselves and open doors.
Since 1966, ECPI University has been helping people fulfill their personal ambitions. In this, our 50th anniversary year, we celebrate power of education and its ability to change lives and create lifelong learners.
While college has changed greatly through the ages, the principles of learning have not. With that thought in mind, we commemorate ECPI University’s 50th anniversary with 50 quotes from some of the world’s greatest minds, each dedicated to the timeless belief that education and perpetual learning should always be humankind’s foremost pursuit.
1. "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
– Alvin Toffler
2. "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. Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. "Education in the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
– Nelson Mandela
4. "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
– John Dewey
5. "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
– Benjamin Franklin
6. "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
– Aristotle
7. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
– Aristotle
8. "It is better to learn late than never."
– Publilius Syrus
9. "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
– Carl Rogers
10. "Education is the movement from darkness to light."
– Allan Bloom
11. "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
– Sydney J. Harris
12. "Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know."
– Daniel J. Boorstin
13. "Education’s purpose is to replace and empty mind with an open one."
– Malcom Forbes
14. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
– Maimonides
15. "You are always a student, never a master. You have keep moving forward."
– Conrad Hall
16. "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
– William Butler Yeats
17. "You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."
– Clay P. Bedford
18. "Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand."
– Chinese proverb
19. "Education cost money, but then so does ignorance."
– Claus Moser
20. "What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul."
– Joseph Addison
21. "Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
– Erich Fromm
22. "The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."
– B.B. King
23. "Education is hanging around until you've caught on."
– Robert Lee Frost
24. "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
– Robert Frost
25. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
– Mahatma Gandhi
26. "You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
– Oscar Wilde
27. "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
– C.S. Lewis
28. "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
– Margaret Mead
29. "The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."
– Thomas Paine
30. "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
– Herbert Spencer
31. "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."
– John F. Kennedy
32. "He that loves reading has everything within his reach."
– William Godwin
33. "Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."
– Anthony J. D'Angelo
34. "The only real failure in life is one not learned from."
– Anthony J. D'Angelo
35. "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."
– George Washington Carver
36. "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
– Abraham Lincoln
37. "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
– Albert Einstein
38. "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
– Abigail Adams
39. "The mere imparting of information is not education."
– Carter G. Woodson
40. "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
– Edmund Burke
41. "Good questions outrank easy answers."
– Paul Samuelson
42. "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 know and what you don't."
– Anatole France
43. "Change is the end result of all true learning."
– Leo Buscaglia
44. "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."
– Edward Everett
45. "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
46. "He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
– Victor Hugo
47. "Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
48. "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
– Kofi Annan
49. "There is no greater education than one that is self-driven."
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
50. "Education is freedom."
– Paulo Freire
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