Quotes About Education

You don't become a teacher without having some level of optimism. And you don't stay in the field if you don't believe that everyone, from bitter teens to burnt-out administrators, can change. I

Clearly Livia had mad skills. Which meant she also had a way out of her impoverished, drug-dealing, crime-ridden family life. Her education combined with her natural ability—the sky should've been the limit. So what went wrong? Why wasn't she still at school, perfecting more pumpkins and fidget doohickeys and manufacturing molds while preparing to launch the next great

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.