Quotes About Education

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

Education must precede motivation.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

Education is civil defence against media fallout.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.

Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.

There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.