Quotes About Education

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Education is what allows you to stand out

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.