Quotes About Education

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.

Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Education is not success but it is to help us succeed.

I discovered that success has very little to do with education or race or disposition; it has more to do with principles and following those principles.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.

It's not an accident that successful people read more books.