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)