Top 100 Quotes About Education
#1. There's a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country's education system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest. Who am I to judge?
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#2. My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.
Mark Twain
#3. Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.
Sai Baba
#4. In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it ... The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.
Abraham Maslow
#5. Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#6. We shall always place education side by side with instruction; the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart. While we prepare useful citizens for society, we shall likewise do our utmost to prepare citizens for heaven.
Basil Moreau
#7. Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.
Robert A. Heinlein
#8. In this area, people watched reality shows and awful quiz shows, gorging themselves on junk food and moving further and further away from the opportunities that a good education or realistic ambitions could provide.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#9. That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.
Solomon Asch
#10. The single most important way to encourage women and girls to stand up for their rights is education, and we can do far more to promote universal education in poor countries.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#11. Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
Frederick Douglass
#12. I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
Loni Anderson
#13. This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so painful. We're showing them how to accomplish the ritual murder of ourselves.
Malcolm Bradbury
#14. Education is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the elements of human consciousness.
Abhijit Naskar
#15. True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Bill Cosby
#17. My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
Gary Becker
#18. Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education ... to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.
John Adams
#20. Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better - best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.
Neil Postman
#21. It only confirmed what I'd always thought - that for all their education university professors can't even imagine political developments having any effect on their careers : they consider themselves untouchable.
Michel Houellebecq
#22. I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.
Mitchel Resnick
#23. I went to India with UNICEF in connection with Manchester United to raise money for children's education.
James Nesbitt
#24. In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
John Naisbitt
#25. Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.
Henry Charles Carey
#26. Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
Edward Thorndike
#27. The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.
William Blum
#28. Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
Alcee Hastings
#30. That is why conservatives are attacking the infrastructure of public education in the country. They have no choice. They are up against an infrastructure full of nurturers, and they don't like it one bit - and they shouldn't like it one bit.
George Lakoff
#32. Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.
Gene Simmons
#33. The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
James S. Coleman
#34. At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.
E.F. Schumacher
#35. True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#36. I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.
Clyde Tombaugh
#37. Education must open the eyes and enable them to recognise the One behind the many.
Sai Baba
#38. Life responsibilities in the right order: God, family, education, and then business.
Steve Harvey
#39. Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.
Ellen Key
#40. Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out.
Arnold Wesker
#41. You can go to heaven with money, education and wealth but you CANT GET THERE WITHOUT CHRIST
Myself
#42. Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.
Geoff Mulgan
#43. That educated didn't mean smart. He had a point. Nothing in my education or knowledge of the future had helped me to escape. Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom.
Octavia E. Butler
#44. Wrote my way out of the hood ... thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.
Brandi L. Bates
#45. If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
Kapil Dev
#47. Wasn't the leap from the farm or the small town to the college campus enough cultural dislocation? Wasn't college education itself enough of a voyage?
Rachel Pastan
#48. We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.
Nigel Short
#49. I don't know where the money would come from, I don't have that answer, but I've been wanting to do something for music education for a long time as it's a big part of not only our band but my whole life.
Sean Mackin
#50. Your children ... are like diamonds ... they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.
George Q. Cannon
#51. Cience-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.
Carl Phillips
#53. If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.
Robert H. Schuller
#54. In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.
Susan Cain
#55. All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#56. To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
Epictetus
#57. My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
Christopher Hitchens
#58. Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#59. Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.
Howard Baker
#60. We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.
Douglas Wilson
#61. The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.
Aristotle.
#62. Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.
John Carroll
#63. I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.
Sebastian Thrun
#64. Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.
Peter Drucker
#65. Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
Madame De Stael
#66. education could develop a human being into an exemplary individual was known as junzi. This process involved persistent development of the self through continuous social contact. He
Adam Brown
#67. First you have to survive adolescence; then your education. Finally, yourself.
Marty Rubin
#68. The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.
Maria Montessori
#69. When I finished my college education my agent said to me ... 'The key to beauty is to be always educating yourself, always learning something new, always doing something new and to have something to talk about.' And I never forgot that, and I think that's how one ages beautifully.
Cheryl Tiegs
#70. Education is knowledge by the students, for the students and of the students.
Anirban Sengupta
#71. Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#72. From the Byzantines, Pound derived his non-violent formula for controlling the Jews. "The answer to the Jewish problem is simple," he said. "Keep them out of banking, out of education, out of government.
Eustace Mullins
#74. There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education.
Richard Mitchell
#75. I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.
Lana Del Rey
#76. My dad always taught me if I have my education, anything is possible.
Romeo Miller
#77. There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.
David W. Orr
#78. For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
Arthur Capper
#79. But my biggest joy and best education and proudest achievement has been being able to show up for work and life and not cause too much trouble a day at a time in spite of my hysterical, somewhat dramatic, nature.
Mark Vonnegut
#80. Venezuelans are tired of 14 years of promises and no results. The only things growing are inflation, murder and crime. The good indicators - production, education and jobs - are all falling.
Henrique Capriles Radonski
#81. Following Locke's doctrine that the mind is a tabula rasa, Helvetius considered the differences between individuals entirely due to differences of education: in every individual, his talents and his virtues are the effect of his instruction.
Bertrand Russell
#82. The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education.
Osho
#83. The biggest risk in life is not the failure, but the failure to get an education.
Debasish Mridha
#84. ... he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others, were greedy and shameless puritans whom, in education, he esteemed inferior to the corner shoemaker.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#85. George," said Fred, "I think we've outgrown full-time education."
"Yeah, I've been feeling that way myself," said George lightly.
J.K. Rowling
#86. Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.
L. Todd Rose
#87. The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.
Paul Goodman
#88. Regardless of one's background - race, culture or gender, education is a great equalizer.
Joe Matlock
#89. The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Sivananda
#90. The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.
Napoleon Hill
#91. I don't look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I've had a lot of fun.
Bobby Heenan
#92. If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.
Jeb Bush
#93. I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.
Jerry Della Femina
#94. To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
Jonathan Sacks
#95. I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.
Dalai Lama
#96. My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.
Guy Davenport
#97. Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.
J. C. Watts
#99. Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
Michael Moriarty
#100. This is not a time for America to 'believe in magic.' This is a time to drive education forward. This is a time to drive the economy forward. This is a time to drive America forward. We must do it together. And we must re-elect Barack Obama as President of the United States.
Jim Hunt
