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Quotes About Education

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
~ Plutarch
We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
~ William Jennings Bryan
You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.
~ Ameen Rihani
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.
~ John Wanamaker
So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.
~ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
~ Thomas Carlyle
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
~ Edward Cocker
My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.
~ Ryan White
For straight, hetero people it's very easy to unintentionally say something that might not honor people's identities fully, and Grace Dunham is a really amazing educational resource.
~ Lena Dunham
Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.
~ Frederick Lenz
The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.
~ Maria Montessori
Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost
~ Charles Hamilton Houston
We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.
~ Roy Barnes
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
~ Beverly Cleary
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.
~ Kofi Annan
This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.
~ Maria Montessori
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
~ Gloria Steinem
So having a little more of an awareness of what's going on in the rest of the world I think is what many Canadians would hope for Americans.
~ Justin Trudeau
Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
~ Eddie Vedder
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.
~ Nelson Mandela
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
~ Diane Ravitch