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Quotes About Education

A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.
~ Charles Bukowski
Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.
~ Gerda Lerner
I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.
~ Ann Cotton
If women are so smart, how come hardly any philosophers have been, and now are, female?
~ Juan T. Llibre
There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership!
~ Angelina Jolie Pitt!
Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.
~ Adelaide Hoodless
Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you.
~ Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
School will bring you more success than marriage.
~ Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon
A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation.
~ Debasish Mridha M.D.
...the state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man...
~ Meg Waite Clayton
To create a just world for women, we must firstly teach men to be just!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For Every Child We Teach To Cherish Learning, A Universe Is Born.
~ D. Simone
I only had three teachers, really, that were interesting, and all three of them were women.
~ Cecil Taylor
And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.
~ Ian Rankin, Set in Darkness
I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
~ Isabel Allende
Education is the key for self liberation.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Dear my brothers there is no more room for wanting to be a thug, BUT there is PLENTY of room for being a father, lawyer, doctor and a teacher. Please take this in consideration!
~ Surgeo Bell
Shouldn't we respect that fewer women want to go into some areas of study than other areas of study?
~ Chris Sardegna
I often run teaching down in my standup, but I had some great years, and it's a great job. It represented a place where I knew what I wanted to do but didn't have the courage.
~ Greg Davies
I know some people will roll their eyes at this, but it's not like you can totally put academics on pause during March Madness (well, maybe at some schools). At Stanford, you had to handle your business.
~ Jason Collins
I think that the culture at Stanford really shapes how you view the world, and you get a lot more out of an entrepreneurial mindset.
~ Joe Lonsdale
Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
~ John Pomfret
I didn't just graduate from Stanford with a really good idea and a good dad.
~ Cenk Uygur