Quotes About Education

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy.

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I'd wind up in a soup line there.

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle… If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.

Schools are prisons for the lucky kids and prisons are schools for the unlucky kids.

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It'd be free, self-paced, and available to all. It'd show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you're already here. Careful who you follow.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.