Education Quotes
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Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain a more integrative view of knowledge, and relate their learning to the realities of life.
Ernest L. Boyer
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Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
John Murray
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By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Confucius
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I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.
Ezra Furman
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The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.
Joshua Jackson
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The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.
Dana Gioia
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Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.
Ninian Smart
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I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
Shakira
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Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.
Andrew Ng
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Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. Advice to a young person to continue his education.
Muhammad Ali
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Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.
George Osborne
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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.
Honore de Balzac
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Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.
Mark Kennedy
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Francis Bacon
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The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
John Conyers
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The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos. I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
Shakira
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I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
John Milton
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How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is no appeal. We cannot change the rules of the game, we cannot ascertain whether the game is fair. We can only study the player at his game; not, however, with the detached attitude of a bystander, for we are watching our own minds at play.
David van Dantzig
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It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.
Epictetus
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... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Sidney Hook