Top 100 To Be Educated Quotes
#1. But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
William Ellery Channing
#2. We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
Epictetus
#3. Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
Bell Hooks
#4. I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.
John McCain
#5. THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.
Neal Boortz
#6. I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.
Nico Mirallegro
#7. But we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves.
Hillary Clinton
#8. So here I stand, one girl among many. I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.
Malala Yousafzai
#9. You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.
Gil Scott-Heron
#10. I think I need to give you a hockeymacation."
"Hockeymacation?"
"Yes, I am going to school you in the art of hockey"
"What! Seriously?"
"Yes, you need to be educated.
Toni Aleo
#11. We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
Walter Lippmann
#12. To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
James P. Carse
#13. I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
Willie Nelson
#14. [T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive ... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.
Peter Drucker
#15. But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.
Anita Hill
#16. I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.
Guler Sabanci
#18. Being smart isn't good enough. You need to be educated, and you need to be open-minded, and you need to remember that what you don't know can most definitely hurt you.
Seanan McGuire
#19. Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
Maynard James Keenan
#20. I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.
Helen Mirren
#21. Clearing your head of everything you thought you knew, even your most
cherished ideas, will give you the mental space to be educated by your present experience
the best school
of all. You will develop your own strategic muscles instead of depending on other people's theories and books.
Robert Greene
#22. Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. To be educated is not so much to be taught as it is to be awakened to who you really are.
Dawna Markova
#24. Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?'
'It's like having an operation,' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.
Malcolm Bradbury
#25. Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
Frederick William Robertson
#26. I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.
Will Smith
#27. Giving homeless children the chance to be educated, giving them this ticket to their futures, is so wonderful. They will have the chance to not repeat the suffering of their childhoods in their own families. They can build secure and safe lives for themselves and their children.
Laura Bush
#28. You don't have to be educated to be a president.
Julius Malema
#29. The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.
Stephen Breyer
#31. In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
Margaret Halsey
#32. Those who are fortunate to be educated, must light the flame of fire.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#33. Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. I believe you need to be educated on what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you necessarily need collage to get there.
Will Smith
#35. Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet
#36. Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.
Christine De Pizan
#37. Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.
Marek Edelman
#38. The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.
Jose Saramago
#39. I am always sorry to hear that such and such a person is going to school to be educated. This is a great mistake. If the person is to get the benefit of what we call education, he must educate himself, under the direction of the teacher.
Fanny Jackson Coppin
#40. If you want to be educated and wise, you must open your heart, expand your mind, be accepting and ready to change.
Debasish Mridha
#41. I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.
J. E. B. Stuart
#42. People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices
Gary L. Francione
#43. I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.
Richard Cobden
#44. Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.
Mia Farrow
#45. It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.
Bill Nye
#46. I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.
Richard Brautigan
#49. To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship ...
Mary Wollstonecraft
#50. For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.
Epictetus
#51. Education is everything. It's for everyone. We all need to be educated.
Jose Andres
#52. To be educated is to know how much one wishes to know and to have the courage not to be tempted beyond this limit .
Michael Oakeshott
#53. Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.
Jon Secada
#54. You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.
Mark Rylance
#55. I want to serve. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated.
Malala Yousafzai
#56. Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
Jules Verne
#57. Kids need to be educated about sex and sexuality and if they're going to have sex, learn how to protect themselves and not get pregnant.
Sandra Bernhard
#58. Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change.
Stuart Duncan
#59. You have to have a work ethic, and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn't mean that everything you do has to be serious. But you've got to have the tools.
Jakob Dylan
#60. Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society ... the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.
Pope Francis
#61. Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.
Carl Jung
#62. I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.
Eddie Vedder
#63. My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.
Jason Clarke
#64. To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.
LL Cool J
#65. Nicholas of Cusa said we have to be educated into our ignorance or else the full presence of the divine will be kept at bay. We have to arrive at that difficult point where we don't know what is going on or what we can do. That precise point is an opening to true faith. The
Thomas Moore
#66. I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air.
Jayni Chase
#67. An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. This is what it means to be educated.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#68. To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.
James Atlas
#69. Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#70. I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.
Al Smith
#71. It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.
Thomas Jefferson
#72. Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.
T.C. Boyle
#73. If people were educated on how to deal with stress, anger, depression, cravings, etc, our world would be such a different place.
Jessica Minty
#74. I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.
Rashida Jones
#75. It is the mark of an educated man to be able to evaluate a thought without accepting it. ARISTOTLE
Paul Pearsall
#76. Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.
Angelina Jolie
#77. There is no chance of night baseball ever being popular in the bigger cities. People there are educated to see the best there is and will stand for only the best. High-class baseball cannot be played at night under artificial light.
Clark Griffith
#78. Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you're creating. They don't have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.
Janet Fitch
#79. As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
Eddie Vedder
#80. I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
Zoe Lofgren
#81. It's generally sort of sociologically observed that the better educated people are, the more liberal they tend to be, which would suggest that professors are going to be more liberal than the general public.
Louis Menand
#82. If you're an artist, it's great to have a knowledge of the business and be educated about that, but you've got to keep the balance right between business and artistry; otherwise, you get cynical.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#83. The Bible, of course, for aside from religion there is much to be learned of men and their ways in the Bible. It is also a source of comments made of references and figures of speech. No man could consider himself educated without some knowledge of it.
Louis L'Amour
#84. The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
Abigail Adams
#85. The more educated and financially successful, the less religious a person is likely to be.
Darrel Ray
#86. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
Edith Hamilton
#87. It would seem that very few good things in life come from our accepting the present moment as it is. To become educated, we must be motivated to learn. To master a sport requires that we continually improve our performance and overcome our resistance to physical exertion. To
Sam Harris
#88. We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#89. I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
Ted Danson
#90. I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Al McGuire
#91. Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
Thomas Sowell
#92. No matter what your product is, you are ultimately in the education business. Your customers need to be constantly educated about the many advantages of doing business with you, trained to use your products more effectively, and taught how to make never-ending improvement in their lives.
Robert G. Allen
#93. The American id could not be educated, Spinks thought. It needed horror in order to stay awake and to justify its most pleasureful pursuit, the destruction of helpless people who had never done anything wrong.
Paul La Farge
#94. To be intensely educated about the horror of sin and then to be conquered by it. I tell myself that it must be prohibition that kindles fantasy
Umberto Eco
#95. People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.
Penn Jillette
#96. If it is about education, then all who are college graduates should be wealthy, but we know that there are many highly educated, highly qualified, and highly experienced people who just manage to scrape by, if at all.
Stephen Richards
#97. People pay more to be entertained that educated
Johnny Carson
#98. If God is really my Father, I have rights, and He has responsibilities. I hereby claim my birthright to be protected, educated, and provided for!
Stefan Emunds
#99. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Thomas Jefferson
#100. It is evil to keep these people in bondage, yet they cannot be freed. They must be educated! To free these people without education and with the prejudice that presently exists against them would be a ghastly crime.
William Styron
