Quotes About Primary Education

#1. The objects of this primary education ... would be ... to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the 'high school movement' made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education

Paul Krugman

#3. Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#4. There is a disconnect between policies and real picture of primary education in India

Shaheen Mistri

#5. Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

Jane Jacobs

#6. Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#7. The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

Saint John Chrysostom

#8. The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children of leading families were enrolled there, including the son of a well-known man believed to be a top gangster of the underworld!

Charles K. Kao

#9. We as human beings should always shoot the goal for success. This means, perseverance is always the primary key for our success in society.

Saaif Alam

#10. My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

Baruj Benacerraf

#11. Since 1787 the principle of freedom of religion has been attacked but never overthrown. Keeping education in the United States free of sectarian influence has long been one of the primary struggles of believers in freedom of religion.

Joseph Leon Blau

#12. The primary difference I see is that unschooling is an invitation to awaken and ennoble capabilities that exist within the child. Where traditional schooling is to fill the child with facts that we, as a collective have decided upon.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#13. In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

H. G. Bissinger

#14. There are two roadblocks in the way of transforming India into an economic giant and one of them was education. I believe that if education is privatised at primary and secondary level, lot of our problems will be answered to

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#15. I would suggest that developing in every student the positive potential that can benefit the world has to be the primary purpose of education, rather than the effort to impart knowledge and skills.

Ilchi Lee

#16. The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

James Rowland Angell

#17. I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

Nita Ambani

#18. They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

#19. From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. Curiosity is the primary fuel that drives lifelong education.

Dhaval Gajera

#21. Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

George Washington

#22. Discovery of one's self, of one's specific individual powers and potential capacities, learning how to develop them and use them as a socialized human being that cares about the needs of other individuals - would have to become the primary task of a new humanist education.

Mihailo Markovic

#23. The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

Jeff Bingaman

#24. The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

John Taylor Gatto

#25. As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities.

Koichiro Matsuura

#26. Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory 'Cosmos' classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands the universe, he will have wider horizons; he will be much less conceited and much more realistic.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. My two primary areas of focus have been open-space conservation and education, and I expect those to remain my priorities in the future. The Irvine open space and parklands provide serenity and balance to our unique Orange County lifestyle.

Donald Bren

#28. Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.

Camille Paglia

#29. Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

Paul Farmer

#30. A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

George Washington

#31. Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns.

Audre Lorde

#32. The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Sydney J. Harris

#33. What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

James K.A. Smith

#34. 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.

Warren Bennis

#35. Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.

Claire McCaskill

#36. Time for reflection and interaction is a casualty of the digital age, and one of the primary goals of higher education should be to reclaim this time.

Jose Antonio Bowen

#37. For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#38. In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

Milton Friedman

#39. The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

N. R. Narayana Murthy