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Quotes About Education

Confront your fears. Find their root. Educate yourself. Reach out for help. Defeat your fears or they will defeat you. Never give up.
~ Akiroq Brost
I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
New ideas for innovation grow out of the minds of each new generation. Having an institution of higher learning that can help young people put those ideas into action is critical.
~ Jay Samit
Me and my mom made a deal that if something would happen to help me get my start in music, I could get out of college.
~ Kelsea Ballerini
Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.
~ Ron Lewis
The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?
~ Brian Moynihan
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
~ Karl Marx
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
~ Noam Chomsky
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
~ Karl Marx
To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.
~ Frantz Fanon
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~ Joel Garreau
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
~ Polly Toynbee
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~ H.G. Wells
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.
~ Dan Quayle
We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.
~ Josephine Baker
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
~ Maynard James Keenan
Honest history is the weapon of freedom.
~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children
~ Immortal Technique
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
~ Carl T. Rowan
The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.
~ James W. Loewen