I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves. --Oprah Winfrey (in Green Empowerment)

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. --Maria Montessori (in Peace)

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. --Nelson Mandela (in One Laptop for Every Child)

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. --William Butler Yeats (in Barefoot College)

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. --W. B. Yeats (in Island School)

I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, quality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, other-centered men can build up. --Martin Luther King Jr (in China: World's Third Largest Food Donor)

Education is much more than a matter of imparting the knowledge and skills by which narrow goals are achieved. It is also about opening the child's eyes to the needs and rights of others. --Dalai Lama (in Art Students Gift Portraits to Orphans)

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it. ... The real preparation for education is the study of one's self. --Maria Montessori (in 100 Years of Montessori)

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. --Nancy Witcher Astor (in The Universal Concept Of Ubuntu)

The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character. --William Osler (in The New Quest On Campus)

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. --Francis Keppel (in The 12-Year-Old Teacher)

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. --Marian Wright Edelman (in The Best Education Money Can't Buy)

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. --Emma Goldman (in Kids Embrace The Giving Spirit)

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed --Thomas Moore (in Teaching 21st Century Skills)

I have seen, time and again, that given an informed choice, the poor do not want a hand out, but simply a hand up. They want the dignity that comes from doing for self. That education is the ultimate poverty eradication tool, and when you know better, you tend to do better. --John Bryant (in Financial Literacy for the Masses)

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. --W.B. Yeats (in The Gift of A Lifetime in the Mail)

Education is hanging around until you've caught on. --Robert Frost (in Tale of a Girls School in Afghanistan)

Education is the movement from darkness to light. --Allan Bloom (in Rooster Valentini: Getting Kids to School)

The giving of love is an education in itself. --Eleanor Roosevelt (in The Two-Rupee Miracle)

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action. --Herbert Spencer (in Children Show They Can Make a Difference)

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. --Emma Golmam (in Tiny Superheroes Don Capes and Do Good)

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. --Albert Einstein (in What I've Learned About Learning)

I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for the minds and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (in The City That Ended Hunger)

The way Khan portrays the concept of education and the mechanism of learning is revolutionary. --Bill Gates (in Creating A Classroom for the World)

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organization and participation in a meaningful society. --Noam Chomsky (in Are You Cultivating Knowledge Or Consuming Information?)

I do not want art for a few anymore than education for a few or freedom for a few. --William Morris (in Lily Yeh & Barefoot Artists)

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. --Nelson Mandela (in Mandela: An Exemplar of Lifelong Learning)

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. --Sydney J. Harris (in Seven Ways to Help High Schoolers Find Purpose)

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. --Socrates (in What Would A Slow School Movement Look Like?)

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. --Albert Einstein (in Thinking Outside the Box)

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world. --Nelson Mandela (in Shai Reshef: The Man Educating the World)

The end of all education should surely be service to others. --Cesar Chavez (in Anthony Chavez: Continuing a Legacy of Inspiration)

Education is not a tool for development-- individual, community, and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams. --Nita Ambani (in A World Where All the Gazi's Go to School)

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action. --Herbert Spencer (in Head, Heart and Hands: 25 Years of Schumacher College)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. --Malcolm Forbes (in Eight Tips for Fostering Mindfulness in Teenagers)

Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. --Anatole France (in Educate the Heart)

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. --Aristotle (in Educate the Heart)

Animal protection is education to humanity. --Albert Schweitzer (in What Does Justice for Animals Look Like)

Democracy requires the kind of education that helps young people learn to lead themselves. --Deborah Meier (in The Company We Keep: Deborah Meier)

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. --William James (in Finding Treasure in the Ruins of Trauma)