Education Quotes

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

Information can perhaps be useful as a support-stick and help you cross the way... but if you want to find your way in the darkness, only knowledge can forge that path for you... only knowledge.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education.... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's very unclear how viable they are in many cases.

That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

So as I increase in my knowledge, in my training and education, I increase in my value in my worth to society that I’m trying to penetrate.

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.