Quotes About Education

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

Education cannot be a matter of charity, Education has to be a matter of Right.

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.

Education is the art of helping young people to completeness; for the Christian, this means education is helping a young person to be more like Christ, the model of all Christians.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.