International Day of the Educating City

Education will not change the world. It will change the people who are going to change the world.

Paulo Freire

The goal of education is virtue and the desire of becoming a good citizen.

Plato

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Gandhi

Education it is not only limited to childhood and adolescence. Learning is not reduced to school. All our life and all surrounding us is our education.

Paul Valéry

We do not learn for school, but for life.

Seneca

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

Confucius

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Baruch Spinoza

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society

Kofi Annan

The ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively educational human effect.

John Dewey

Man can only become man by education. He is merely what education makes of him.

Kant

First role of education is shaking life whereas giving enough freedom for its development.

Maria Montessori

It takes a village to raise a child.

African Proverb

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

Nelson Mandela

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

B.B. King