Education Quotes

Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.

Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think

If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.

Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.

People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.

Never let your education interfere with your learning.

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job

Knowledge itself is power

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.

I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

The Mother Thing makes our world.

More depended on the student than on the school.

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

[T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.

A man without regrets cannot be cured.

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there. Page 188

The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.