
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.Rabindranath Tagore
These 18 quotes on education come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.Rabindranath Tagore

I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education'.Malala Yousafzai

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

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.Walt Whitman

Be educated, be organised and be agitated.B.R. Ambedkar
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.Thomas Carlyle
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.Benjamin Franklin
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.B. F. Skinner
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.H. G. Wells

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.Malcolm X

We learn not in school, but in life.Seneca

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.Abraham Lincoln

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.Aristotle

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.Victor Hugo

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.Albert Einstein