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Quotes About Education

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
~ Vartan Gregorian
A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.
~ Maria Montessori
There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.
~ Marshall McLuhan
In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.
~ John Taylor Gatto
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
~ Maria Mitchell
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
~ Isaac Asimov
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
~ Alan Bennett
From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.
~ Nelson Mandela
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
~ Boris Spassky
We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."
~ Price Pritchett
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.
~ Samuel Johnson
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.
~ R. D. Laing
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
~ Joseph Lancaster
If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.
~ Cal Thomas
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.
~ Nicholas Meyer
Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.
~ Ludwig von Mises
As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
~ Joe Baca
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
~ Albert J. Nock
The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.
~ Allen Newell
I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.
~ Matthew Lesko
That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.
~ Marva Collins
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
~ Warren Buffett
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
~ Jean de la Bruyere