Quotes About Education

Unemployment is problem for everyone, but a pronounced issue is not so much for 10 or 12 pass-outs or less educated or even illiterates as much for graduates and post graduates

University education fetches no importance until the best writer is made payment either equal or better than the good actors.

When a person at the peak powerful position of the nation/organization is himself illiterate/semi-illiterate/phony-graduate;how can people expect that he will appreciate/support/promote those well-educated/right/bright individuals working as sub-ordinates. In fact, he would rather humiliate/denigrate/demote those talents to come out of his own inferiority complex.

Perhaps he would relive it all only when he sent his son here to study, to learn in their superb systems, to grow and be hurt and yet feel so alive in their strange world, amidst their alien and rude ways that somehow managed to be affectionate. But it would be long time from now

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

I want knowledge. How, like a starved thing in the dark, I'm driven to reach for it.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

He knew almost as much as if he had read much.

Never utter these words 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know know to understand understand to judge.

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

More money," Etcoff writes, "is spent on beauty than on education or social services." FEARS

And as children get older, the structure of the school day becomes even more out of sync with the natural rhythms of children and adolescents.

The growing number of students who have not only identified the problem of sleep deprivation but are actively taking part in its solution is a key driver of the sleep revolution. This

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign.

He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow, and in much wisdom is much grief.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Politics, these days, is no occupation for an educated man, a man of character. Ignorance and total lousiness are better.