From funny back-to-school quotes that’ll get your kid laughing to new school year sayings about what’s to come, this big list of 100 school quotes—including back-to-school quotes for teachers—will get you ready to welcome the start of this new academic year with open arms.
Funny Back-to-School Quotes
- “Respect your parents. They passed school without Google.” – Anonymous
- “Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today’s world—an assigned parking space.” — Gene Perret
- “School is a building which has four walls with tomorrow inside.” – Lon Watters
- “If you think your teachers are tough, wait ‘til you get a boss.” — Bill Gates
- “There’s more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” — Walt Disney
- “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” — Edmund Burke
- “School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation’s over, school is here.” — Winifred C. Marshal
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss
- “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” — Lily Tomlin
- “A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.” — Smiley Blanton
- “First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.” — Jordan Francis
- “School is the easiest job you’ll ever have.” — Marty Klazmer 13. “School is a lot like toilet paper. You only miss it when it’s gone.” — Anonymous
- “There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “It’s not that I hate school. I just hate waking up early in the morning.” — Unknown
- “We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.” — Peter De Vries 17.“High school looks so much cooler on TV.” — Unknown
- “You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.” — Bill Watterson
- “I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.” — Kim Harrison
- “I would enjoy school more if I was allowed to bring a pillow.” — Unknown
Back-to-School Quotes for Teachers
- “The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.” — Joseph Campbell
- “One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai
- “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” — Bill Beattie
- “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” — Clay P. Bedford
- “Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” — Roger Lewin
- “Intelligence plus character—that is the true goal of education.” — Martin Luther King
- “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” — G.K. Chesterton
- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry B. Adams
- “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” — Chinese proverb
- “Education is the difference between wishing you could help other people and being able to help them.” – Russell M. Nelson
- “All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.” — Ken Robinson
- “Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” — Chinese proverb
- “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” — Lady Bird Johnson
- “What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.” — Chuck Grassley
- “Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” — Josef Albers
- “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” — Solomon Ortiz
- “To raise a child who is comfortable enough to leave you means you’ve done your job. They are not ours to keep, but to teach how to soar on their own.” — Unknown
- “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” — Japanese Proverb
- “The future of the world is in my classroom today.” — Ivan Welton Fitzwater
Inspirational Back-to-School Quotes
- “The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.” — Brian Herbert
- “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
- “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” — Goethe
- “You learn something everyday if you pay attention.” — Ray LeBlond
- “Now when you get there, act like somebody.” — Unknown
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”— Arthur Ashe
- “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” — Ben Franklin
- “The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Hellen Keller 49. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein 50. “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier 52. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle 53. “We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.” – Carol Burnett
- “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” — Confucius 55. “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan
- “You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.” — Michelle Obama
- “We learn 10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, 30% of what we see, 50% of what we see and hear, 70% of what we discuss, 80% of what we experience, 95% of what we teach others.” — William Glasser 58. “In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett
- “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle
- “I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.” – Ruth Simmons
First Day of School Quotes
- “First day of school! Wake up! Come on. First day of school.” — Finding Nemo
- “Everything you do–good or ‘bad’–affects everyone else in the room. That means everything you do matters because you matter.” — Unknown
- “What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.” — J. J. Watt
- “What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.” — Terry Williams
- “Be kind and make friends.” — Unknown
- “One day middle school will end and become high school and after that it just becomes life. All those things you think are important now won’t be anymore.” – Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- “The road to —here and everywhere on earth—begins in the classroom.” – Hubert Humphrey
- “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” — Will Durant
- “I’ve always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.” – Jenny Han
- “Every day is the first day of school.” — Dr. Edoardo Zeloni Magelli
- “On the first day of college you will worry about how will you do inside the college and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college.” — Amit Kalantri
- “You’re off to great places. Today is your day!” — Dr. Seuss
- “On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, ‘I hope you all like where you’re sitting, because these are your permanent seats.” — Jeff Kinney 74. “Be curious, not cool.” — Ken Burns 75. “It’s good to learn. Nobody can ever take that away from you.” — Estelle Okeon 76. “You are capable of anything.” — Unknown 77. “Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it’s just teaching you to stand up the next time.” — Joel Edgerton 78. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato 79. “I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” – Larry Bird
- “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” — Alan Cohen
New School Year Quotes
- “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” — Taylor Swift
- “A new school year means new beginnings, new adventures, new friendships, and new challenges. The slate is clean and anything can happen.” — Denise Witmer
- “The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.” – Harry Wong
- “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” — David M. Burns
- “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” — Alfred Mercier
- “It’s one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.” — Dana Perino
- “Education is the key to opportunity.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
- “Struggling is a part of learning. If it’s simple or simply done, you’re probably not learning anything.” — Unknown
- “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris
- “You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.” – Les Brown
- “Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” — Ralph Marston
- “Time to rise. Time for school! Open your eyes.” — Tammie Jones
- “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” — William Butler Yeats
- “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.” — Zig Ziglar
- “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela
- “Don’t be afraid to ask questions.” — Unknown
- “What we learn becomes a part of who we are.” — Kathy R. Jeffords
- “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” — Carl Sagan 99. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” — Helen Keller 100. “Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.” — Conan O’Brien Check out… 125 Education Quotes100 Teacher Appreciation Quotes150 Good Morning Quotes50 World Teacher’s Day Quotes150 Life Quotes
