Education Quotes

In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Global education is something that is important for me. Because I believe that our future is going to be built by our young generation.

To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Education is understanding relationships.

Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .

All genuine education comes about through experience.

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

Education doesn't make you smarter.

Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission.