Quotes About Education

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?