Quotes About Progress In Education

#1. Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

#2. Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

John F. Kennedy

#3. During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Jonathan Kozol

#4. Progress of life is impossible without breaking the rules.

Debasish Mridha

#5. It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

Pearl S. Buck

#6. Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.

Najib Razak

#7. To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Ho Chi Minh

#8. Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

Narendra Modi

#9. Progress just means bad things happen faster.

Terry Pratchett

#10. If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#11. The ideal of an "all-round" education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

#12. The most important condition for progress is freedom of the mind.

Debasish Mridha

#13. We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.

Robert Reich

#14. Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

Caroline Pratt

#15. We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

Estelle Morris

#16. While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.

Michael Bennet

#17. If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.

Narendra Modi

#18. Meaningful progress toward social justice cannot be made in sclerotic education systems that put adults' job security before children's civil rights.

Arthur C. Brooks

#19. 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.

Shashi Tharoor

#20. When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.

Chris Carter

#22. If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.

Michelle Rhee

#23. The process of discovery (or innovation, or technological progress) itself depends on antifragile tinkering, aggressive risk bearing rather than formal education.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#24. Success is a steadily progress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Education is the key to progress and success for human beings and for a nation.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family

Kofi Annan

#27. The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

Napoleon Hill

#28. Doubt is the limit of progress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

Charles A. Coulombe

#30. A President must call on many persons
some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#31. A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.

Narendra Modi

#32. The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Richard Cobden

#33. As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.

Abraham Foxman

#34. Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Alphonso Jackson

#35. If these modern peoples could inflict the most barbaric treatment and persecution on another group of human beings, then there was something very, very deplorable with our species. No amount of education or technological progress was going to make any difference in altering human savagery.

Mitchell Diamond

#36. The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.

Charles Darwin

#37. All progress of humanity happened because humans wanted to be loved and appreciated.

Debasish Mridha

#38. Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

Winston Churchill

#39. The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

George Eastman

#40. How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

Swami Vivekananda

#41. I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

John Dewey

#42. Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being - head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#43. Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#44. The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task..

Guy Claxton

#45. Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

Matt Chandler

#46. As an organisation [Not for Sale] we use social media on a daily basis as a way to share the impact of how our support is having on individuals and communities. By building awareness, education and updating interested parties on the progress of the projects.

David Batstone

#47. All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. In Garfield's experience, education was salvation. It had freed him from grinding poverty. It had shaped his mind, forged paths, created opportunities where once there had been none. Education, he knew, led to progress, and progress was his country's only hope of escaping its own painful past. In

Candice Millard

#49. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.

Suzy Kassem

#50. All men are born with an equal and inalienable right to disillusionment. So, until they choose to waive that right, it's three cheers for Technological Progress and a College Education for everybody.

Aldous Huxley

#51. Education, is not just simply the progress of school, it is having the ability and desire to learn on your own.

Rawley Kramer

#52. Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.

Edgar Morin

#53. Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

Ludwig Von Mises

#54. Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

Nikki Giovanni

#55. 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