Education Quotes: Igniting the Flame of Knowledge, Growth, and Empowerment
Igniting the Spark of Education
Education is the key that unlocks the doors of opportunity, enlightenment, and personal growth. It empowers individuals to expand their horizons, cultivate their talents, and make a positive impact in the world. In this article, we celebrate the power of education through a collection of quotes that inspire, motivate, and highlight the transformative nature of learning.
Education is not confined to classrooms; it is a lifelong journey of exploration, curiosity, and continuous growth. It equips individuals with the tools to navigate the complexities of life, empowers them to think critically, and encourages them to challenge the status quo. Education opens doors to new possibilities, broadens perspectives, and fosters a deeper understanding of the world we inhabit.
Embracing the Power of Education: Quotes to Inspire and Reflect
Throughout history, scholars, educators, and visionaries have shared their insights and reflections on the power of education. Their quotes encapsulate the essence of learning, the impact of knowledge, and the transformative potential it holds. Below, we present a collection of inspiring education quotes that will ignite your passion for learning, fuel your curiosity, and remind you of the boundless opportunities education offers.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs – in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
Let’s not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
I enjoyed physical education and lunch time. The social aspect of school was great, but as soon as I left school, I wanted to get out there and race. I couldn’t sit still for long.
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education… no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.
We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.
The five different areas in which boys are in crisis – education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness – are handled by different portions of the government.
I will get my education – if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn’t do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn’t fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.
College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.
Education begins at home. You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him.
You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education.
A good education is a foundation for a better future.
Nature has always had more force than education.
We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.
‘No Child Left Behind’ requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
We learned that kicking down doors to free children from carpet factories isn’t enough to stop child labour – we had to tackle the underlying poverty in which their families lived, through education.
Catholic schools in our Nation’s education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one’s life.
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
Improvement of civic facilities is among our priorities, and for this purpose, education, health, infrastructure and transport sectors are being improved through revolutionary steps. Citizens will benefit from all these projects, and their living standard will be raised.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
We don’t believe that you should ever replace physical education. Even in a thousand years, a computer will never be able to do so.
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
I believe God takes the things in our lives – family, background, education – and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don’t think God wastes anything.
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
All over the world, independent and strong civil society – NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates – help governments solve problems and better serve their people better by shining a light on the issues that matter most – like education standards, access to healthcare, the rule of law, and economic opportunity.
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
By providing every student with a quality education, and the materials they need for class and to do their homework, we can help students from all backgrounds learn and thrive.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything – whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
To keep attracting good new jobs, we must invest in more job training and education to prepare young people and workers at every age for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.
For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
Education is the best economic policy there is.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.
I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Health care is not a privilege. It’s a right. It’s a right as fundamental as civil rights. It’s a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.
My mom and dad were ‘helicopter parents,’ literally. Meaning, I didn’t have a nanny, so I went up in the helicopter. My entire early childhood education consisted of tagging along while they reported on car accidents, multiple-alarm fires, and shootouts.
One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination – these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will – that’s just the bottom line.
Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That’s an education in itself.
I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.
Education has to be more than tests and formulas.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
Segregation has no place in the education system.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Because I’ve never had any higher education of any sort, I’ve never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don’t.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, ‘Is it? Why? Why is it like that?’ Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.
I chose to support Purpose Prep because it is important for every child to have the opportunity to receive a great education, and the Purpose Prep programs are designed for underprivileged children in my hometown to have access to those services.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent.
Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
I was supposed to move into a new place and it fell through. So for five months before Sex Education, I was couch-surfing among all my friends. I didn’t have a home.
Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
Education is what you learn after you leave school.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
Like most fathers, I would do anything for my children, and I’ve worked very hard at trying to be a good father. I want to give them education, security, everything I never had.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It’s the only thing I’m really leaving them – a good education.
We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.
Know thyself. Remain steadfast. Follow your dreams. These are great directives and perfectly fitting for graduates. But reality is that achieving dreams takes a solid education – education that remains elusive for too many Americans.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
The economy is the start and end of everything. You can’t have successful education reform or any other reform if you don’t have a strong economy.
I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
I’m not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn’t born to the purple.
In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.
In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.
I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Education is the mother of leadership.
Addressing governance issues are important because whichever silo you work in, be it education, microfinance, sanitation, food or health, you would eventually hit governance deficit.
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
A dynamic economy begins with a good education.
I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others – people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.
I want to make sure every child has the opportunity for quality education.
When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
There is no education like adversity.
A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.
Man is what he reads.
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.
The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children’s schooling and education decisions.
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student’s education.
You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.
A lot of people abroad know Lula’s campaigns against poverty and hunger, but he had a tremendous legacy in education too. He invested 2 percent of GDP, more than other administration, putting the PT’s education programs in motion.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a more successful society. This narrative is so devoid of historical context that it should embarrass anyone beyond a second-grade education.
A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.
You may be a redneck if… you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.
Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.
I would like to be a terrorist for music education – to make a complete reform, all over the world.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one’s own culture and social organisation.
After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, primary education was made free. We are now thinking to make education in the public sector free up to graduation level. We are also thinking of providing a light meal at primary and secondary schools in order to increase the student retention level.
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
Although I love working and making movies and that will always be the priority, I really do love continuing my education. It’s great to be active and learning instead of sitting around waiting for a phone call for the next project.
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
I am proud to be part of a community that only projects love and education and the support of one another.
The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.
I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that – even if it can’t be quantitatively measured as other subjects – it’s as fundamental to all education.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Education is the vaccine for violence.
SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
We see that in the top problems in the world between haves and have-nots, generally we find that the root cause is education.
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.
I know a lot of people think I’m dumb. Well, at least I ain’t no educated fool.
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.
Education is everything – education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.
I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity… and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Yeah, I’m a thrill seeker, but crikey, education’s the most important thing.
Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.
I taught myself algebra and a little grammar, and somehow I scraped a high enough score on the ACT to be admitted to Brigham Young University, even though I had no formal education.
What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to grow and encourages students to be interested in science and technology.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
Without an education, you won’t have a future.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Early care and education helps children build the skills they need for success in kindergarten and can help close the achievement gap.
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is a universal formula for success in a free society.
A one-size-fits-all lecture is not the way to go about education.
For some reason, our culture is one that preaches that furthering your education is something that is always worth the price tag, and the truth is, that simply isn’t the case.
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
Even Milton Friedman – doyen of radical free market thought – was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds that it is unfair for children to not get a chance in life because they were born to poor parents.
It’s not enough to train today’s workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow’s workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
It is better to learn late than never.
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.
The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
Education, hard work, dedication, a support system, and knowing my life had value – these were what had made all the difference.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
Education is the development of power and ideal.
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.
Education is the key. But it’s the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don’t have it.
Our nation’s commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness – not experience, expertise, or education – are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.
We believed that there’s no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it’s bad, it’s something else. It was a much, much harder line in the ’50s and ’60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn’t exist – they didn’t have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
Once I got a bit older, and we could see there could be a future in football, it was everyone’s blessing to chase that dream. And it did me a lot of good: It put me through college, it gave me an education, it got me a little taste of pro ball and a lot of good memories. I don’t regret any of it.
My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Our mission at Khan Academy is a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere, and college readiness is a crucial part of that. We want to help as many students as possible prepare for college and for life, and since the SAT measures preparedness for college, our partnership with the College Board is a natural fit.
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.
Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don’t go to school and many of them are in Africa.
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they’re two different things.
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
You can accomplish anything, if you are focused and determined, believe in yourself, and get education and certifications that will give you confidence.
Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes.
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
A person’s current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.
There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
The strength of the scientific establishment in any country is related to its general level of education, not only in supplying large numbers of eager minds for further training, but also in ensuring a public opinion that holds science in esteem and approves financial support.
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.
In my day we didn’t have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I’m seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Responsibility educates.
The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.
If you care about potholes, you have to vote. If you care about pre-k education, you have to vote. If you care about women’s health care, you have to vote.
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.
Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one ‘silver bullet’ that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
I frequently meet ex-pupils who seem to think I didn’t totally ruin their educations, so that’s something.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
I was a Senate spouse for many, many years. I kept my own career. I was teaching and Joe was doing politics. I realized when we were elected vice president that I had a platform and I knew I was not going to waste my platform. It was going to focus women and girls’ education.
I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
The most valuable investment we can make is in our children’s education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship… When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was to prepare for citizenship in a new, constitutional, democratic society.
As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it’s always better to provide the education that will help keep my children – all people – safe, even if I don’t want them to engage in the behavior.
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‘studies’ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‘studies’ are about propaganda rather than serious education.
In the musician, there is a tendency to have a narrowness. It’s all compartmentalized. I am playing the violin; that’s all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
For me, education was power.
You can’t build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
‘Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.
As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
Education is important because it prepares you for life.
I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
In a world that places a growing premium on social skills, education systems need to do much better at fostering those skills systematically across the school curriculum.
The support of my mother has made such a difference in my life, sacrificing everything to make sure that we went to school, did our homework, got an education. That was one person supporting me, and it takes more than one person in our community to help raise our children.
As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
Education is neither eastern nor western.
I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
A good education is another name for happiness.
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you’ve got to inquire, you’ve got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you’re doing.
Learn to think continentally.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
We know from scientific studies that infants as young as six months old can distinguish right from wrong and have a preference for the good over the bad. I think it’s important to design our education and our schools around that insight, to bring out the best in our kids.
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
Our solution on ‘The Simpsons’ is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don’t, it doesn’t matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, ‘D’oh!’
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
The best education I have ever received was through travel.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Your library is your paradise.
The mark of higher education isn’t the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It’s the skills you gain about how to learn.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
I saw this new thing called television, and I saw people throwing pies in each other’s faces, and I thought, ‘This could be a wonderful tool for education! Why is it being used this way?’ So I said to my parents, ‘You know, I don’t think I’ll go into seminary right away. I think I’ll go into television.’
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
Whatever your political leaning, vote. This participation is vital. I feel the same way about issues like the space program, education, the military. The more the public focuses on these things, thinks and forms opinions, I think the better we are as a democracy.
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
I’ve become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don’t offer at least one course – not even required, just an elective – on the world’s religions.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.
All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.
When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body – it’s a blessing.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
I don’t think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
You can’t have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they’re not going to hear them in America. I believe it’s part of their education.
I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families’ and the country’s economic development. A girl’s lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the way schools function in nearly every capacity, and I am proud of the way Connecticut’s education officials, teachers, and staff have been able to respond in order to ensure that students continue to receive a quality education.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.
With the education I had, all I could do was work as a burro, in whatever I could find: shoeshine boy, janitor, dishwasher, waiter, bartender, cashier, bricklayer, painter.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and it’s really tough.
Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.
In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it’s like a precious gift. It’s like a diamond.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.
Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy will require a collaborative, sustained effort from all stakeholders – from the president and the secretary of education on down to states, school districts, principals, teachers, parents, and community members.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
As a product of education, I have always believed in the power of education as the most powerful, high-impact catalyst for transformation. Look at the impact that the Indian Institutes of Technology have had globally.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
The benefits of prison education go beyond lowering recidivism rates and increasing post-release employment. It can also rekindle a sense of purpose and confidence.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.
The world has come around to the view that democracy is essential for full human development. And only education and skill development can make this possible.
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they’re 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just ‘virtual reality.’
My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.
You can’t have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don’t have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn’t exist.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education – a virtual requirement for financial security – out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.
Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Providing a quality education for children starts before they even arrive at school.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.
In conclusion, education quotes remind us of the transformative power of learning and the boundless opportunities it presents. They inspire us to embrace education as a lifelong journey, celebrate the joy of acquiring knowledge, and recognize the potential within each of us to make a positive impact in the world. Let these quotes resonate with you as you continue your educational journey, and may they serve as a reminder of the limitless possibilities that education unlocks.
