Education Quotes
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Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.
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If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
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Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.
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I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.
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I still believe that education is about provoking some kind of original, creative thought.
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
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Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.
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I think I made $55 a week, and it was bliss... I was doing theater. It was all I ever wanted to do. It was so much fun, and you got paid for it, and you met people, and it's the greatest education in the world. And in my little Greenbrier station wagon, I felt very much like a troubadour.
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True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .
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My education was very tough.
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City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.
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I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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Without an education, you won't have a future.
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The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
