Education Quotes
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
Harri Holkeri
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Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.
Louis Nizer
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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan Thomas
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The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.
Pamela Druckerman
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I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value.
Maajid Nawaz
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less … than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Speaking as a biologist, I think women are less aggressive than men, and they play a larger role in the early education of the young and helping them overcome their genetic heirloom.
Christian de Duve
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The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa represents our commitment to Africa's next generation of leaders, who deserve an exemplary education to prepare them to help set the course for their nations' futures. We expect the universities in which we invest to become the foundation of a higher education network that will serve all of Africa for decades to come.
Vartan Gregorian
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There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Hillary Clinton
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The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.
H. L. Mencken
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What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.
Ulrich Beck
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In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.
Chetan Bhagat
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That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
Gaston Caperton
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Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.
David Souter
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The world will not Change and find peace if there is not a new education.
U Thant
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Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
David Suzuki
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I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.
Joan Kirner
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It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.
Paulo Freire
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There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.
Pallam Raju
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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
Philip Pullman
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The sense of justice and injustice is not deriv'd from nature, but arises artificially… from education, and human conventions.
David Hume
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Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.
Paul Erdos
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When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.
Betsy DeVos