1. Knowledge is power. (Francis Bacon, British philosopher)
知识就是力量。 (英国哲学家 培根)
【提示：本句适于灵活改写，如谈时间重要时可改为Time is power.;谈金钱重要时可改为Money is power.】
2. Knowledge is the food of the soul. (Plato, ancient Greek philosopher)
知识是心灵的食粮。 (古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)
3. Activity is the only road to knowledge. (George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist)
行动是通往知识的唯一道路。 (英国剧作家 萧伯纳)
4. Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. (Thomas Fuller, British historian)
知识是宝库，而实践是开启宝库的钥匙。(英国历史学家 福勒)
5. A free man obtains knowledge from many sources besides books. (Thomas Jefferson, American president)
一个自由的人除了从书本上获取知识外，还可以从许多别的来源获得知识。(美国总统 杰斐逊)
【提示：以上三句都可用于阐释知识来源。】
6. 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. (Benjamin Franklin, American president)
倾己所有追求知识，没有人能夺走它;向知识投资，收益最佳。(美国总统 富兰克林)
7. A little learning is a dangerous thing. (Alexander Pope, British poet)
学问浅薄，如履薄冰。(英国诗人 蒲柏)
8. A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. (William Allen White, American journalist)
学问浅薄对一个人并不危险，只要他不误以为自己学问渊博。(美国知名记者 怀特)
9. Example is always more efficacious than precept. (Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic)
身教胜于言教。(英国作家、批评家 约翰逊)
10. Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character. (Hosea Ballou, British educator)
教育始于母亲膝下，孩童耳听一言一语，均影响其性格的形成。 (英国教育家 巴卢)
11. If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (John Bunyan, British essayist)
你若希望你的孩子总是脚踏实地， 就要让他们负些责任。(英国散文家 班扬)
12. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William Yeats, Irish poet)
教育不是注满一桶水，而是点燃一把火。(爱尔兰诗人 叶芝)
13. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. (Will Durant,American historian)
教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。(美国历史学家 杜兰特)
14. The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter. (J. Angell, American psychologist)
教育最主要的目的不是教你挣得面包，而是使你吃的每一口都香甜。(美国心理学家 安吉尔)
【提 示：除了直接引用，还可以在谈教育应利于学生求职这一反观点时，作为反驳的靶子， 如：The American psychologist J. Angell once said ... However, if several years' college education fails to make us earn our bread, we do not even have the chance to taste how sweet it is.】
15. In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life. (William Allen White, American journalist)
教育不是为了教会青年人谋生，而是教会他们创造生活。(美国知名记者 怀特)
16. Education has for its object the formation of character. (Herbert Spencer, British philosopher)
教育以造就人的品质为其目标。(英国哲学家 斯宾塞)
【提示：以上四句都可用于阐释教育的真正意义或目的。】
谚语类：
1. Unpolished pearls never shine.
玉不琢，不成器。
2. Learn young, learn fair.
学习趁年少，而且要学好。
3. A young idler, an old beggar.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
4. Learning is the eye of the mind.
学问是心灵的眼睛。
5. There is no royal road to learning.
学无坦途。
6. Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
天才不过是勤奋而已。
7. Knowledge advances by steps not by leaps.
知识逐步增加，不能一蹴而就。
8. Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
知识使人谦虚，无知使人骄傲。
9. Complacency is the enemy of study.
学习的敌人是自己的满足。
10. He who inquires much learns much.
问得多，学得多。
【提示：本句适于灵活改写，如谈实践的意义时可改为He who practices much learns much; 谈阅读或旅行的意义时可改为He who reads/ travels much learns much.】
11. He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
耻于问即是耻于学。
12. Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent your own.
前人犯错，后人戒。
