Top 100 Important Education Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
Erica Jong
#3. I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
Caitlyn Jenner
#4. 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
#5. When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.
Malala Yousafzai
#6. Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.
Peter Drucker
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. It isn't important who is going to hurt me, but its important who is going to love me.
Debasish Mridha
#10. Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
Christopher Dodd
#11. 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
#12. How much others love you is not very important, but how much you love yourself will define your success.
Debasish Mridha
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Spreading knowledge is very important for the future of humanity.
Eraldo Banovac
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
William James
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Most important thing in life is to love, love everything, love everybody, and become beloved.
Debasish Mridha
#23. The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.
Glenn T. Seaborg
#24. A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.
Toni Servillo
#25. 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
#26. Education is important! That piece of paper is your key to success
Queen Brown
#27. Today is the most important day to start a new beginning. It will open the door of opportunity and reveal the holding.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.
Robert Kiyosaki
#29. Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
Abraham Lincoln
#30. But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
#31. You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#32. I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.
Ma Ying-jeou
#33. But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.
Norman Cousins
#34. Learning and seeing are more important than education.
Sten Nadolny
#35. Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
#36. The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is often more important than helping young people really be prepared to deal with the tests of life.
Linda Lantieri
#37. Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.
Ludacris
#38. When we know who we are and what we are supposed to do, it is easier to make important decisions about education, careers, and marriage. It is easier to shine our light in our families, with our friends, and in all other places.
Julie B. Beck
#39. The education of the Negroes, then, the most important thing in the uplift of the Negroes, is almost entirely in the hands of those who have enslaved them and now segregate them.
Carter G. Woodson
#40. We Born, Get Education, Get Jobs, Earn, Spend, Save And Eventually Die. That Can't Be Right. There Must Be Something Important We're Missing. We're Too Busy Following That Same Circle That We Forget Our Main Purpose of Life, To Know Ourselves ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#41. To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.
Shaquille O'Neal
#42. But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education.
Gina Capaldi
#43. A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.
Nicola Sturgeon
#44. 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.
John Glenn
#45. In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.
Peter L. Berger
#46. But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.
Kathleen Sebelius
#47. We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You know, it is a part of the spiritual and the soulful experience and expression of being human and it is a necessity, as necessary as water, as breathing air.
Rosie O'Donnell
#48. 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.
Charles R. Swindoll
#49. And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.
John Breaux
#51. I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
Dean Kamen
#52. The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.
Malala Yousafzai
#53. Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!
Laurie Halse Anderson
#54. For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.
Tyler Hamilton
#55. You have a situation in which the U.S. is fighting three unjust wars and wasting trillions of dollars in public funds, all the while draining money from important social services and public and higher education.
Henry Giroux
#56. Your problem, Nagrant,' he declared, 'is that your education was unconnected with the practical reality of life. You grew up believing that rules are more important than all the facts you could ever uncover, and that the slightest disobedience is deadly.
Andreas Eschbach
#57. Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
Chuck Berry
#58. Although any help is genuinely welcomed, it is more important to be a supportive, proactive parent than it is to be a supportive parent after academic failure and negative behaviors occur.
Tanya R. Liverman
#59. I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could be part of a bigger one.
Ramona Koval
#60. The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
Edward Gibbon
#61. The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.
Grayson L. Kirk
#62. The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important ... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.
Kinky Friedman
#63. 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.
Andrew Card
#64. I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani
#65. Instruction is important but inspiration kindles the candle for a life time.
Debasish Mridha
#66. In life every moment is exceptional, every moment is most important.
Debasish Mridha
#67. The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.
Erich Fromm
#68. Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.
Jodi Rell
#69. Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.
Craig T. Nelson
#70. Nothing is more important than a good education.
Roy Wilkins
#72. Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
Steve Irwin
#73. Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#74. I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.
Kathleen Sebelius
#75. It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.
Marjane Satrapi
#76. I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.
Jenna Bush
#77. I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
Barbara Lynn
#78. Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.
Sean Mackin
#79. We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way.
Lionel Sosa
#80. Your attitude toward life is more important than environment, upbringing, and even your education. So always have a happy positive attitude.
Debasish Mridha
#81. It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.
Sebastian Coe
#82. The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Plato
#83. There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you.
Sunday Adelaja
#84. This is the moment. This is your life. This is the most important moment of your life. This is the moment you are really living. This is the moment you were waiting for your whole life.
Debasish Mridha
#85. The most important condition for progress is freedom of the mind.
Debasish Mridha
#86. There are four important words that define your life: love, hope, happiness, and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#87. It's not that I had more important things to do or that I didn't want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful - rather, it's this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.
Tucker Elliot
#88. Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education.
Mildred Blaxter
#89. The education of children for God is the most important business done on earth.
R.L. Dabney
#90. I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.
Pallam Raju
#91. I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.
Robert E.Lee
#92. That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well.
Lowell Milken
#93. For success, attitude is often more important than education.
Debasish Mridha
#94. I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.
Richard Dawkins
#95. One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
Bryant McGill
#96. It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
Yuan T. Lee
#97. Your education experience, talent intelligence, and financial situations don't matter. The important thing is the direction in which you focus your unique, powerful, creative mind
Mark Allen
#98. Life is finite, so focus on your purpose and do what is important.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Besides, come shells or high water in the shelter, we were going to continue our education. More important than anything else to our parents and leaders was that we be educated. Our
Brigitte Gabriel
#100. Most important thing in life is not to run after success, but to feel the joy of life.
Debasish Mridha