Quotes About Education

S]cience has contributed a great deal to war and violence, and people well trained in science are sometimes not entirely rational and are even dogmatic. We have to find a way to teach reflectively, not just scientifically.

I think we believed that what we'd achieved acamically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.

American English was different from the language she'd learned at Maple Leaf International in Dhaka, but she was lucky because George corrected her and kept her from making embarrassing mistakes.

Charlie and I both felt very adult that last year of college, very experienced: I think we believed that what we'd achieved academically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I never lose, I either win or learn

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world

It was ANC policy to try to educate all people, even our enemies: we believed that all men, even prison service warders, were capable of change, and we did our utmost to try to sway them.

n Mens het letterkunde in jou lewe nodig, want daarsonder gaan jy agteruit.

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

L'éducation est l'arme la plus puissante que vous pouvez utiliser pour changer le monde. »

Only mass education, he used to say, would free my people, arguing that an educated man could not be oppressed because he could think for himself.

In those days, I believed that proficiency in English and success in business were the direct result of high academic achievements.

One day, George Mbekela paid a visit to my mother. "Your son is a clever young fellow," he said. "He should go to school." My mother remained silent. No one in my family had ever attended school and my mother was unprepared for Mbekela's suggestion. But she did relay it to my father, who despite—or perhaps because of—his own lack of education immediately decided that his youngest son should go to school. The

But in Johannesburg I found that many of the most outstanding leaders had never been to university at all.

Sólo la educación de las masas, puede liberar al pueblo. Un hombre educado no puede ser oprimido, si es capaz de pensar por sí mismo.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation.

At the university, teachers had shied away from topics like racial oppression,

university degree, I believed, was a passport not only to community leadership but to financial success.

La educación es el gran motor del desarrollo personal. Sólo a través de ella la hija de un campesino puede convertirse en médico, el hijo de un minero puede llegar a ser director de la mina, o el de un granjero puede llegar a ser presidente de una gran nación.

Ironically, it was the regent himself who was indirectly to blame for this, for it was the education he had afforded me that had caused me to reject such traditional customs