Just like that, the holidays are over and you’re preparing for your students to return to the classroom! Setting to tone at the start of the term is an important part of welcoming them back and what better way to do this than with an intriguing quote? We’ve carefully curated this amazing list that’s jam-packed with quotes that are sure to get your kiddos back into the zone! Pick a few to display in your class or throw your favorite up on the board to discuss as a class on their first day back.
1. “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey
2. “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” – Conrad Hall
3. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
4. “The road to freedom – here and everywhere on earth – begins in the classroom.” – Hubert Humphrey
5. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
6. “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb
7. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” – Carl Rogers
8. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia
9. “A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren
10. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
11. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
12. “Take your risks now. As you grow older, you become more fearful and less flexible.” – Amy Poehler
13. “Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.” – Chinese proverb
14. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
15. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
16. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
17. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” – Mahatma Gandhi
18. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
19. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
20. “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom
21. “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
22. “Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.” – Shakuntala Devi
23. “The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” – Confucius
24. “The only failure is not to try.” – George Clooney
25. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde
26. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
27. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams
28. “Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.” – George Washington Carver
29. “Back to school! Back to school, to prove to Dad that I’m not a fool!” – Billy Madison, “Billy Madison”
30. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
31. “Education is the most powerful weapon for changing the world.” – Nelson Mandela
32. “Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.” – Dana Stewart Scott
33. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
34. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
35. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” – Helen Keller
36. “School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation’s over, school is here.” – Winifred C. Marshal
37. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
38. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant
39. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
40. “Education doesn’t just make us smarter. It makes us whole.” – Jill Biden
41. “Don’t try so hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try so hard to be different…Just try hard to be you.” – Zendaya
42. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
43. “We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.” – Carol Burnett
44. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein
45. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris
46. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
47. “You are capable of more than you know.” – Glinda the Good Witch, “The Wizard of Oz”
48. “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
49. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
50. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
51. “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier
52. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
53. “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling
54. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
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