Quotes About Education

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sakebut for the nations sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not military preparednessfor armed might is worthless if we lack the brain power to build a world of peace; not our productive economyfor we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of governmentfor freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

Behind Caroline was her schoolroom full of bright, eager students. God had given them to her as a gift, to show her that the sacrifices she'd made did have meaning. His purposes for her life would be partly fulfilled in them, and in those children's futures.

Like most rural girls, I had graduated from the Volkschule

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

Since emotional intelligence is learned rather than inherited, it can be improved.

knowledge is as powerful, in its own way, as any magic, and that magic without knowledge is worse than useless; it is dangerous.

The instruction of inexperienced young men is one of life's unrivaled pleasures.

His message was that educators must find a way to teach compassion and moral values apart from a religious context.

What kind of grad student do you take? "I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their teachers.

She met adversity with information.

Lynn Thorndike

Lynn Thorndike

We therefore owe our universities to the Middle Ages.

The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word "Book's" with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement, though greatly accelerated. First there is shock. Within seconds, shock gives way to disbelief, disbelief to pain, and pain to anger. Finally (and this is where the analogy breaks down), anger gives way to a righteous urge to perpetrate an act of criminal damage with the aid of a permanent marker.