Top 485 Education Quotes

In this post, you will find great Education Quotes from famous people, such as Ronaldinho, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, John Ruskin, Alice Englert, Rob Dyrdek. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mo

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sisterbecause they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, ‘Is it? Why? Why is it like that?’ Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.
One of the best things to me about ‘Skate’ is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
What people want is their basic needs. So I’m trying to help people ensure their basic need: that means food security, healthcare, education, and job opportunity and a better life.
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
If you invest in education and training of our young people, what you do is you increase the future economic capacity of the nation.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Al McGuire
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank Zappa
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.
Michael Gurian
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Our mission at Khan Academy is a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere, and college readiness is a crucial part of that. We want to help as many students as possible prepare for college and for life, and since the SAT measures preparedness for college, our partnership with the College Board is a natural fit.
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
John Hannah
I do believe that education should become as close to free as possible.
I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.
Alberto Juantorena
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don’t know its importance at all.
I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
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
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in t

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham
Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It’s the federal government and the Justice Department. It’s a fraud; it’s a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
A lot of people abroad know Lula’s campaigns against poverty and hunger, but he had a tremendous legacy in education too. He invested 2 percent of GDP, more than other administration, putting the PT’s education programs in motion.
Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.
Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are – these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
I chose to support Purpose Prep because it is important for every child to have the opportunity to receive a great education, and the Purpose Prep programs are designed for underprivileged children in my hometown to have access to those services.
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Jeff Rich
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.
Mark Pocan
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.
Katherine Johnson
Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
Education is worth its weight in gold. Make no mistake about it.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
We believed that there’s no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it’s bad, it’s something else. It was a much, much harder line in the ’50s and ’60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn’t exist – they didn’t have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
Billy Al Bengston
I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that’s what people were making. So that’s where your education comes from.
Aarti Sequeira
The economy is the start and end of everything. You can’t have successful education reform or any other reform if you don’t have a strong economy.
I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?
An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a community – and a culture.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Sidney Hook
My mom and dad were ‘helicopter parents,’ literally. Meaning, I didn’t have a nanny, so I went up in the helicopter. My entire early childhood education consisted of tagging along while they reported on car accidents, multiple-alarm fires, and shootouts.
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
Michael F. Easley
Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Zhuangzi
The world has come around to the view that democracy is

The world has come around to the view that democracy is essential for full human development. And only education and skill development can make this possible.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Education begins at home. You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him.
Geoffrey Holder
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it’s based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can’t, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.
John Walters
My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend.
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
Paulo Freire
There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment – and more – by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.
A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything – whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
Frederick William Robertson
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
Conrad Burns
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
You can’t have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don’t have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.
Gordon Neufeld
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
I’d like to work with kids in special education – younger kids.
If you care about potholes, you have to vote. If you care about pre-k education, you have to vote. If you care about women‘s health care, you have to vote.
Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn’t measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
Abraham Robinson
Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
The want of education and moral training is the only re

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.
Susanna Moodie
I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.
I’ve never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me. I think the average person is thinking more about what I’ve accomplished in my professional career and what I’ve accomplished in my career as a legislator.
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one’s children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
What you need to have is that link between your education and what you do. Make creativity part of the subject.
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.
Kathy Reichs
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.
On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
Education is the best economic policy there is.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin
Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.
I started off as a kid who didn’t care what my education was.
Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
You can accomplish anything, if you are focused and determined, believe in yourself, and get education and certifications that will give you confidence.
Jessi Combs
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Ariel Durant
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community – these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Virginia Gildersleeve
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
There are two equalizers in life: the Internet and education.
My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.
Read in order to live.
The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.
Heinrich Boll
Education has for its object the formation of character.
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one’s literary education very incomplete.
The problem is, education in America is sub-optimal because it is an impossible thing to optimize. It necessarily has to be local because different schools face different problems. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions.
We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.
Bob Inglis
College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt t

College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
Harvey S. Firestone
The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children’s schooling and education decisions.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
John Hersey
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield
In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.
Let’s not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
‘No Child Left Behindrequires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls’ education.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination – these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.
Once I got a bit older, and we could see there could be a future in football, it was everyone’s blessing to chase that dream. And it did me a lot of good: It put me through college, it gave me an education, it got me a little taste of pro ball and a lot of good memories. I don’t regret any of it.
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
Kamisese Mara
My kids both had Catholic junior school education, which I’m really glad for – it taught them how to be compassionate, how to be kind.
If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.
With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you’ve got in Africa now and like you’ve got in Haiti. So what we’re talking about is there has to be an educational program. That’s very important.
Education is the development of power and ideal.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If

If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can’t afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can’t afford to throw any young people away.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree‘s inclined.
I really don’t want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Even Milton Friedman – doyen of radical free market thought – was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds that it is unfair for children to not get a chance in life because they were born to poor parents.
With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, ‘How come I’m not in New York?’ That being said, I’m older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I’m very grateful for it.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
An absence of credible information prevents citizens from participating in public decision-making, particularly on key issues of concern such as education, health, and governance.
Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
You can’t have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.
The first step in securing our cyber future is education, and that means everything from educating individuals to companies to the next generation of IT professionals.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.
Education is freedom.
Paulo Freire
It’s not enough to train today’s workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow‘s workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
Education is the mother of leadership.
By providing every student with a quality education, and the materials they need for class and to do their homework, we can help students from all backgrounds learn and thrive.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student’s education.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas
Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
I saw this new thing called television, and I saw people throwing pies in each other’s faces, and I thought, ‘This could be a wonderful tool for education! Why is it being used this way?’ So I said to my parents, ‘You know, I don’t think I’ll go into seminary right away. I think I’ll go into television.’
I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
Childfree women are actually great assets to the planet. Our carbon footprint is smaller than a mom’s! And we have enough money to write checks to organizations that help kids get vaccinations, vitamins, and educations yet have plenty of free time to advise your daughter that one day she will regret piercing her lip.
At the end of the day, the true value proposition of ed

At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
John Dickey
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
Robert M. Hutchins
Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.
Oscar Hammerstein II
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Pauline Phillips
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
Higher education is a cornerstone of our state’s future.
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
While the Tan Yan Kee foundation believes that it is merely scratching the surface relative to the gargantuan problems in the education sector, it envisions that one day it will be able to train more teachers and provide much-needed facilities that will transform schools into more conducive learning environments.
Lucio Tan
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
Heather Watts
I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don’t really consider myself that at all.
Andy Andrews
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
E. Franklin Frazier
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
Ernie Fletcher
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others – people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
It is difficult to think of a major industry that AI will not transform. This includes healthcare, education, transportation, retail, communications, and agriculture. There are surprisingly clear paths for AI to make a big difference in all of these industries.
I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
The American education system couldn’t be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it’s like a precious gift. It’s like a diamond.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
If you don’t give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.
‘Make in India’ is great, but ‘Make It Happen in India’ is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It’s about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering.
Our nation’s commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.
There is a disconnect in education and work. And corporates don’t do a great job of skilling. In future, corporates and educational institutions will work closely.
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
You may be a redneck if… you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.
People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don’t know what the word ‘education’ means… ‘Educo’ means to bring out.
Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes.
Moza bint Nasser
Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
Brad Henry
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
We cannot learn men from books.
Books, the children of the brain.
Like most fathers, I would do anything for my children, and I’ve worked very hard at trying to be a good father. I want to give them education, security, everything I never had.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Because I’ve never had any higher education of any sort, I’ve never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don’t.
I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It’s the only thing I’m really leaving them – a good education.
Sloan Wilson
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
Jodi Rell
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that – even if it can’t be quantitatively measured as other subjects – it’s as fundamental to all education.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it’s what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.
Jim Hunt
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Man is what he reads.
I don’t think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.
I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification – education, hard work, success, and ambition – are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination.
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.
Phil Mickelson
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.
Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
I believe that it is higher education’s purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.
The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
Felix Bloch
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.
Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and it’s really tough.
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
Mary Calderone
In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.
The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
To me education is a leading out of what is already the

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Muriel Spark
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, primary education was made free. We are now thinking to make education in the public sector free up to graduation level. We are also thinking of providing a light meal at primary and secondary schools in order to increase the student retention level.
Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy will require a collaborative, sustained effort from all stakeholders – from the president and the secretary of education on down to states, school districts, principals, teachers, parents, and community members.
Our solution on ‘The Simpsons‘ is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don’t, it doesn’t matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, ‘D’oh!’
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
I will comprehensively review the education system with my team to create a stable, caring, and inspiring environment for students, parents, teachers, and principals.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education.
Julian Bond
I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
Edmund Barton
My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
John Naisbitt
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
Early childhood education remains one of the strongest investments we can make in the long-term success of our students and the long-term economic strength of our communities.
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
William Bennett
To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
Jeb Bush is the foremost authority on education reform in the Republican Party, and I will look to reform the ballooning costs of our higher education system along the lines that he has advocated.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
Patrice Motsepe
I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.
Learn to think continentally.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just ‘virtual reality.’
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, priva

As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.
Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
The support of my mother has made such a difference in my life, sacrificing everything to make sure that we went to school, did our homework, got an education. That was one person supporting me, and it takes more than one person in our community to help raise our children.
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.
I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.
Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
I’m the product of the classical, old-fashioned European education that is broad-based. You want to get your degree in the world, you have to study all sorts of things.
Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
I need to complete my homework on time.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
My education as a film composer, you can’t not – if you like the orchestra like I do, if you are a symphonist like I am – you can’t not listen to John Williams‘ work.
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.
The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
John Agyekum Kufuor
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
Gouverneur Morris
It doesn’t matter where you’re from. You can be from the hood or the suburbs. You can be poor with no education or a college graduate. No matter your background, you can win.
I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it’s Minecraft.
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.
The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.
We discovered that education is not something which the

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.
For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge – like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one’s own culture and social organisation.
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
The benefits of prison education go beyond lowering recidivism rates and increasing post-release employment. It can also rekindle a sense of purpose and confidence.
Frederick the Great
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.
Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.
I was a Senate spouse for many, many years. I kept my own career. I was teaching and Joe was doing politics. I realized when we were elected vice president that I had a platform and I knew I was not going to waste my platform. It was going to focus women and girls’ education.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
Without tact you can learn nothing.
Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety.
Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.
I believe God takes the things in our lives – family, background, education – and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don’t think God wastes anything.
The strength of the scientific establishment in any country is related to its general level of education, not only in supplying large numbers of eager minds for further training, but also in ensuring a public opinion that holds science in esteem and approves financial support.
Arthur Lewis
Education has always been very important to me. It means you don’t have to depend on anyone else.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other items. The food famine becomes a symptom of that vast failure.
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.
When I started my engineering, I had to support my education expenses; I was then studying in what is now the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar.
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schoo

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertiseEnlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
It is better to learn late than never.
Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman‘s education.
Thomas Hughes
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
If we provide quality education to one generation, poverty will automatically be eradicated from society.
Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
The five different areas in which boys are in crisis – education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness – are handled by different portions of the government.
As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it’s always better to provide the education that will help keep my children – all people – safe, even if I don’t want them to engage in the behavior.
Everything that makes man’s life worthwhile – family, work, education, a place to rear one’s children and a place to rest one’s head – all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
I’ve become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don’t offer at least one course – not even required, just an elective – on the world’s religions.
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
Margaret Spellings
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn’t a leader, it is education.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Robert M. Hutchins
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John Dewey
I don't believe in private education.

I don’t believe in private education.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources – all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.
Kimberly Quinn
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
James L. Farmer, Jr.
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
Paul Erdos
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann
A person’s current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.
Kim Ki-duk
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.
Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.
We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
John Dewey
A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Robert M. Hutchins
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Alice Miller
In America we have big issues with education – in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we’re encouraging more people to get into teaching.
Sex education has to do with what’s in people’s head.
We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.
The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a more successful society. This narrative is so devoid of historical context that it should embarrass anyone beyond a second-grade education.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.
A good education is a foundation for a better future.
When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don’t assume that responsibility, it is a breach in trust.
Mette Frederiksen
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successful

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
Yeah, I’m a thrill seeker, but crikey, education’s the most important thing.
Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Agnes Repplier
Education is neither eastern nor western.
A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.
Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
Nicholas M. Butler
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life.
As a product of education, I have always believed in the power of education as the most powerful, high-impact catalyst for transformation. Look at the impact that the Indian Institutes of Technology have had globally.
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted – public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation.
Rob McKenna
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It’s not just about entertainment – it’s about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
Osman Rashid
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn’t do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn’t fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.
Moza bint Nasser
Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
Hugh MacDiarmid
Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.
Education is the vaccine for violence.
Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.
Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.
While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.
James E. Rogers
Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867, two years after the civil war ended. She was a daughter of a slave. She had no formal education. Both her parents died by the time she was seven. Yet, by the time she died in 1919 at age 51, she was one of the most successful businesswomen America had ever seen.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.
I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was summoned to Atlanta to work at WSB. It was, for me, the beginning of a real education about the South.
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you’ve got to inquire, you’ve got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you’re doing.
I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don’t go to school and many of them are in Africa.
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.
As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs – doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.
There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.
A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children’s own education.
You can’t have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they’re not going to hear them in America. I believe it’s part of their education.
I think technical education and vocational skills and having a trade mean something.
Teachers do not need to be armed with guns to protect their classes; they need to be armed with a solid education in order to teach their classes.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson Alcott