Quotes About Education

Education is the mother of leadership.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation

A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.