Quotes About Education

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

I think the education system is great just the way it is. There's kids in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, seven years old, that can already speak fluent Spanish.

I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.