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Quotes About Education

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.
~ Ken Robinson
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
~ Booker T. Washington
At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.
~ Leon Botstein
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination
~ Mother Jones
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
~ Sidney Hook
If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.
~ Howard Gardner
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
~ Democritus
I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.
~ Arne Duncan
I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.
~ Gordon Korman
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
~ Denis Diderot
The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
~ John Stuart Mill
As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.
~ Unknown
What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
~ Adolf Hitler
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
~ George Santayana
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
~ Jonathan Kozol
Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
~ Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
~ Allan Bloom
Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.
~ Ezekiel Emanuel
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.
~ Chris Hedges
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
~ John Dewey