Quotes About Value Of Education

#1. The value of education is among the greatest of all human values ...

Virginia Woolf

#2. As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress.

Charles B. Rangel

#3. Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

Frederick Douglass

#4. Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

B.C. Forbes

#5. The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.

Edward L. Bernays

#6. Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness.

William Lyon Phelps

#7. The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Mitt Romney

#8. Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

Malcolm Wallop

#9. I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.

Jamie Moyer

#10. I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

Ruth Simmons

#11. I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

Jeb Bush

#12. It is my belief ... that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.

Doris Lessing

#13. If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

Alan Greenspan

#14. Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment.

Warren Mundine

#16. The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only teachers who are avid, internally motivated learners can truly teach their students the joy of learning.

Martin Haberman

#17. Its almost as if he was raised by wolves, but wolves who knew the value of a decent education.

David Nicholls

#18. The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think,

Walter Isaacson

#19. He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of books.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. Education is the only currency which you can spend in every country of the world without losing its value.

Debasish Mridha

#21. The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.

Derrick Jensen

#23. It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

Nikki Giovanni

#24. The value of the old liberal education was not that it made men "well-rounded," like a ball bearing, but that it gave them the freedom of the height and breadth and depth of human experience, including man's mysterious encounter with his Creator. To

Anthony Esolen

#25. I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

Steve Jobs

#26. The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old.

Dennis Prager

#27. The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

Daisaku Ikeda

#28. All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's why I'm a strong proponent of general education
because I saw how it opened my eyes.

Paul Rozin

#29. The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

Gavin Newsom

#30. Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.

James Fenimore Cooper

#31. The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

Amari Cooper

#32. Value your life, not by the years, but the difference you made in the lives of others.

Debasish Mridha

#33. We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to be feeding that sense of our original being. We fight ourselves, repeating other people's games and being fed their appetites and their amusements.

James O'Dea

#34. In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

Alfred North Whitehead

#35. If a boy finds he can make a few articles with his hands, it tends to make him rely on himself. And the planning that is necessary for the execution of the work is a discipline and an education of great value to him.

David McCullough

#36. At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.

Sebastian Thrun

#37. That's the value of a college education ... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

Gaston Caperton

#38. Value of life depends not on your possessions, but on your donation.

Debasish Mridha

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. the value of intellectuals is neither their intellect nor the value of their intellect but the value of what they use their intellect to do

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#42. Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.

Norton Juster

#43. Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.

Baha'u'llah

#44. Be a person of value; never seek approval to be yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#45. The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

Sai Baba

#46. The value of life is not in duration but in its donation.

Debasish Mridha

#47. If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.

Maria Montessori

#48. Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.

John Dewey

#49. The value of your life will not be judge by the value of your wealth or splendor, but by the value you added to others life.

Debasish Mridha

#50. Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

Booker T. Washington

#51. My parents always stressed the importance of education, working hard in school and learning as much as possible. They also encouraged me to value myself and believe in myself and do what I thought was right for me.

Hillary Clinton

#52. In all human societies, health and education have an intrinsic value: the ability to enjoy years of good health, like the ability to acquire knowledge and culture, is one of the fundamental purposes of civilization.

Thomas Piketty

#53. Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

Mahatma Gandhi

#54. Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Caroline Kennedy

#55. Love has no monetary value, but it enhances the value of life.

Debasish Mridha

#56. Single women that place high value on Higher Education are often the brunt of snide remarks and smearing put downs by less educated black man ... page 126

Deborrah Cooper

#57. The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.

James Marcus Bach

#58. From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

Alfred Rosenberg

#59. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#60. By spending love, you increase the value of your life.

Debasish Mridha

#61. Plan your life, keeping value of time in mind because time is your life and it is very limited.

Debasish Mridha

#62. The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars ... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

Arthur C. Clarke

#63. It is not the length of life, but it is the love for life, that determines the value of your life.

Debasish Mridha

#64. Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#65. Virtue inside is the real value of human, if ldp cannot rule this country, of course our country not yet be cured. All LDP (League for Democracy Party) supporters must be clear this point.

Khem Veasna

#66. The value of a good education has never left me.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#67. Knowledge is the value of a diamond but wisdom is the beauty and light it reflects.

Debasish Mridha

#68. My children have gone to Catholic school ... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

Alice McDermott

#69. It is easy to live with someone of value than someone famous.

Debasish Mridha

#70. It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

Richard Llewellyn

#71. I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

Harry Allen Overstreet

#72. An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.

Maria Montessori

#73. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Albert Einstein

#74. I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

David Nicholls

#75. Education itself is Marketing
marketing tools and perspectives to people who don't necessarily realize why they need them, how it will serve them, what they might accomplish with them. And, ensuingly, Marketing itself is Education (with no attempt to assess the value of what is being marketed).

Shellen Lubin

#76. A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#77. Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

John Dewey

#78. Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

Condoleezza Rice

#79. It is not the duration but the donation for the humanity that determines the value of life.

Debasish Mridha

#80. Love is the true value of love.

Debasish Mridha

#81. If values are woven into the very concept of education, where is the need for separate value education?

Vijaya Bharathy

#82. At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students ratio is kept at a healthy 1:20 so that all children get proper attention in class.

Nita Ambani

#83. Value of your life is nothing but the time that you have.

Debasish Mridha

#84. If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

Sunday Adelaja

#85. It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

Peter Hilton

#86. Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

Kingman Brewster Jr.