Going back to school is always filled with mixed feelings. Few things are for sure to happen; it will be a knowledgeable & happy session with books, friends, and teachers.  Below are the back to school quotes to cheer your mood and adjust the mindset to go learn & create more interesting stuff for the world.

1. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” -William Butler Yeats
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3. “Pretending to concentrate in class so the teacher won’t ask you a question.” – Anonymous, back to school quotes funny
4. “Every time i see the word “explain” on a test, a part of me dies.” – Anonymous
5. “Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.” – Confucius
6. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin, back to school quotes for teachers
7. “The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. “ – Ralph W. Sockman
8. “All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” – Martin H. Fischer
9. “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” – Winston Churchill
10. “Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.” – Dana Stewart Scott
11. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler
12. “We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school”- Peter De Vries,
13. “Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.” – Gracie Allen
14. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein
15. “Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” – Mark Twain, back to school quotes college
16. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
17. “The founding fathers… provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.” – John Updike
18. “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond
19. “But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.” – Ronald Reagan
20. “Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.” – Doug Larson
21. “Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.” – E. C. McKenzie, back to school quotes for parents
22. “The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repairman’s kids through college.” – Joan Welsh
23. “Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.” – Margaret Laurence
24. “I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.” – T. H. Huxley
25. “It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it.” – Finley Peter Dunne
26. “Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday knowledge. Bring your own containers.” – E. C. McKenzie
27. “The difference between school and life? 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
28. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela, back to school advice quotes
29. “I do not know what ‘moss’ stands for in the proverb, but if it stood for useful knowledge… I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.” – Ernest Shakleton
30. “If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.” – Richard Livingstone
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32. “Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.” – Erma Bombeck
33. “No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.” – Edgar Watson Howe
34. “Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.” – E.C. McKenzie, back to school quotes for students
35. “The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn’t stop until you get to school.” – Milton Berle
36. “When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.” – Mark Twain
37. “If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
38. “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” – Claus Moser
39. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle, back to school quotes for Instagram
40. “You can get all A’s and still flunk life.” – Walker Percy
41. “Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” – Erich Fromm
42. “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” – Abbé Dimnet
43. “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
44. “The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward, back to school encouragement quotes
45. “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” – Kahlil Gibran
46. “School prepares you for the real world… which also bites.”- Jim Benton
47. “What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.” – Terry Tempest Williams
48. “Soon the days of swimming and playing in the sun will be a memory, but don’t worry. The new school year will bring a chance to meet new friends!”
49. “Back to school can seem a little scary, but it means you are growing up and becoming even more awesome!”
50. “You are allowed to scream. You are allowed to cry. But, you are not allowed to give up.”
51. “What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” – George Bernard Shaw
52. “If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.” – Edgar W. Howe, back to school quotes for moms
53. “Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.” – Beverly Cleary
54. “If Instagram, YouTube,Google were school subjects, my parents would be so proud of me. .” – Anonymous, back to school humorous quotes
55. “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey
56. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
57. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson
58. “Take your risks now. As you grow older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn’t even on.” – Amy Poehler
59. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
60. “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan
    

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61. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan
62. “You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.” – Elbert Hubbard,  back to school quotes and sayings
63. “Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.” – E. C. McKenzie
64. “Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today’s world — an assigned parking space.” – Gene Perret
65. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” – Epictetus
66. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
67. “There are three good reasons to be a teacher – June, July, and August. “
68. “I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.” – Jeff Foxworthy
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70. “If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.” – Heinrich Heine
71. “In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.” – Mark Twain
72. “I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.” – Woody Allen
73. “Education is a progressive discovery of your own ignorance.” – Will Durant
74. “School: 2+2=4, Homework: 2+4+2=8, Exam: Omar has 4 apples, his train is 7 minutes early, calculate the mass of the sun.” – Anonymous
75. “Respect your parents. They passed school without Google.” – Anonymous
76. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo,  back to school again quotes
77. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde
78. “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” – Brigham Young
79. “Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
80. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” -Aristotle
81. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” -Malcolm X
82. “3 things i’ve learned in school: 1. Texting without looking. 2. Sleeping without getting caught. 3. Teamwork on tests. .” – Anonymous,  back to school quotes funny teachers
83. “When I say i miss school, I mean my friends and fun. Not the school.” – Anonymous