Quotes About Education

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about

Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.

In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education

A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.