Quotes About Education

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

The end and aim of all education is the development of character.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.