How Important Education Quotes

#1. What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#2. Do what is right, not what is important.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and with what little we had, they were able to provide an education for their children.

Muhammad Yunus

#4. Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

Derek Bok

#5. Good character is more important than wealth, good looks, popularity and even education. These things do not guarantee happiness and often they become obstacles to developing good character.

Michael Josephson

#6. Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

Alexander Gould

#7. It isn't important who is going to hurt me, but its important who is going to love me.

Debasish Mridha

#8. The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

Anna Garlin Spencer

#9. Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

Christopher Dodd

#10. Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

Myles Horton

#11. There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to focus on education, which was very important in the Soviet Union.

Jan Koum

#12. Education is not so important as people think.

Elizabeth Bowen

#13. The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where you stand naturally in the ranks, and try yourself out, but education is just reading and understanding what you read.

William Monahan

#14. The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school.

Bob Pletka

#15. Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#16. Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

Tim Meadows

#17. These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.

Kevin Rudd

#18. The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

Albert Einstein

#19. Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#20. I love you, that is important to me. You love me or not its your matter. Remember I can control only myself, not you at all.

Debasish Mridha

#21. How much others love you is not very important, but how much you love yourself will define your success.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

Jose Ferreira

#23. I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

George Will

#24. Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.

William Powell

#25. Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

Peter Agre

#26. Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

Zephyr Teachout

#27. What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all.

John Holt

#28. Concentrate on what is important, not what is urgent.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

Richard Mitchell

#30. The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.

Carly Fiorina

#31. With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

Sue Kelly

#32. Failing to win is not important, but failing to participate is.

Debasish Mridha

#33. Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.

Robert L. Payton

#34. Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.

Kelly Reilly

#35. I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#36. The most important lesson in life is to learn to love those who are hurting you. Because those people who are hurting you, in reality they are hurting themselves. Be kind to them.

Debasish Mridha

#37. The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#38. Every moment is important, like the moment that takes away your life.

Debasish Mridha

#39. I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.

John Dykstra

#40. For success, optimism is more important than opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

#41. During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'

Jimmy Fallon

#42. It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

Mandy Moore

#43. The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.

John Shaw Billings

#44. In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

William James

#45. Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Paul Berg

#46. My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

Jennifer Garner

#47. It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

Jimmy Wales

#48. I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.

Rhys Ifans

#49. Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

David Suzuki

#50. Congressman Ryan is a strong advocate for greater mindfulness in health care as well as in other important areas such as education, the military, and criminal justice. In his book, he makes a very strong case for why we need greater mindfulness in these and other areas of our society.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#51. Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#52. I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed into our heads that books were almost the most important thing in the world, second only to getting a good education.

Martha Southgate

#53. The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

Ben Horowitz

#54. Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Zaha Hadid

#55. The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

Jostein Gaarder

#56. The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

Roy Romer

#57. Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.

Kent Conrad

#58. Most important thing in life is to love, love everything, love everybody, and become beloved.

Debasish Mridha

#59. The most important thing to achieve success in life is to know the purpose of life and go for it with boldness and love.

Debasish Mridha

#60. The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?

Brian Moynihan

#61. People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Nina Bawden

#62. I wouldn't have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best ... But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra

Ben Mitchell

#63. The most important question is, what is really most important for you in life and how to get there.

Debasish Mridha

#64. The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

Bob Riley

#65. The most important purpose of education is to learn how to find the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#66. It is not important how much money you gave away. It is important what good it will do on the way.

Debasish Mridha

#67. Education is gathering information and reading ... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

Victor LaValle

#68. If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today ... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.

Anne Sullivan Macy

#69. More often than not, how you give is more important than what you give.

Debasish Mridha

#70. We know everything about what you know and how you learn best because we get so much data. And education is the highest-stakes media product in your life. It's infinitely more important than your Facebook friends' status updates or your Google search results because it's your future.

Jose Ferreira

#71. I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.

Caitlyn Jenner

#72. Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.

Barack Obama

#73. It's not a matter of how small you are. Still you are important; you matter.

Debasish Mridha

#74. It isn't important how much you are giving but it is very important that you are giving.

Debasish Mridha

#75. Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us. Going to school, reading and doing our homework wasn't just a way of passing time, it was our future.

Malala Yousafzai

#76. When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.

Malala Yousafzai

#77. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the most important lesson we can learn is how to love. How to love better.

Paulo Coelho

#78. I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.

Jason Kilar

#79. Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

Narendra Modi

#80. I know nothing about education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

Michel De Montaigne

#81. It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.

Malala Yousafzai

#82. My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.

Marge Piercy