Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Introduction to Our Time Is Now: Notes From the High School Underground, John Birmingham, ed. (1970)
John Adams1735–1826Letter to Abigail Adams (29 October 1775), published Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, Vol. 1 (1841), ed. Charles Francis Adams, p. 72
Terence McKenna1946–2000Spacetime Tsunami, Interview with Carla Sinclair, bOING bOING #10.
Wendell Berry1934–2026What Are People For? (1990), “Healing”
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902“What We Believe In”, written in Chicago (3 March 1894), Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, vol. 4
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933From ‘Address at Holy Cross’ (25 June 1919), published in Have Faith In Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2nd Ed.), Coolidge, Houghton Mifflin, p. 231.We don’t have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
Bob Marley1945–1981As recorded in Time Will Tell (1992), a documentary by Declan LowneyAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott1771–1832Letter to J. G. Lockhart (c. 16 June 1830), in H. J. C. Grierson (ed.), Letters of Sir Walter Scott, vol. 11 (1936)Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
CCharlemagne747–814De Litteris Colendis (c. 780–800); translation from T. H. Huxley, Science and Education (1893)- TGTemple Grandinborn 1947“Temple Grandin: Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All” Guest essay, New York Times (January 9, 2023)
It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that they’re going on.
Julian Assangeborn 1971Talk at the Oslo Freedom Forum (April 2010)One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.
Malala Yousafzaiborn 1997Speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly, New York (12 July 2013)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Letter to his brother Mikhail (1839), as translated in Konstantin Mochulsky, Dostoevsky: His Life and Work (1971), p. 17He knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.
