Quotes About Education

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.