Education Quotes

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

If we are wise, we never leave school.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

We have to face up to systemic racism. We see it in jobs, we see it in education, we see it in housing. But let's be really clear; it's a big part of what we're facing in the criminal justice system.

There is desperate education inequality in America, and I think every kid deserves a good teacher and a good school regardless of the ZIP code that he or she lives in.

People like Donald Trump, who paid zero in taxes, zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for health and education, that is wrong.

The road to being somebody in this society starts with education.

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

Without an education, you won't have a future.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking and leads to violence.

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.

Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them.

Health and education are always issues.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic.

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.