Quotes About Education

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

Now, every child does have the necessary intelligence. You create an atmosphere for him to grow into his intelligence rather than superimposing your rottenness on him.

In today's world, where information is available everywhere, a school should shift away from propagating information to becoming an inspirational place, which builds beautiful human beings. Education should become a joyful choice, not a compulsive extruder out of which every child has to come out in a certain shape.

Though for millennia in India, education was conducted in such a way that it was a possibility for the evolution and blossoming of the individual, over the last few centuries, aberrations have happened to the culture.

Hoy en día, en nombre de la civilización y la etiqueta, las personas educadas no suelen experimentar plenamente ninguna de sus emociones. No pueden llorar plenamente. No pueden reírse a carcajadas. Con el paso del tiempo, la frustración se apodera de ellos y se quedan sin alegría.

The word sadhguru, as I often point out, means an uneducated guru.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was What's your alma mater? I told him, Books. You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.-because you can hardly mention anything I am not curious about.

you will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

I read aimlessly, until I learned to read selectively, with a purpose.

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It is the process of mis-education that inhibits the full potential of a nation.

In the hectic pace of the world today, there is no time for meditation, or for deep thought. A prisoner has time that he can put to good use. I'd put prison second to college as the best place for a man to go if he needs to do some thinking. If he's motivated, in prison he can change his life.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Malcolm believed, by the way, in Student Power: not only did he feel that the college-educated black, if he could retain (as he must) his sense of reality and history, and refrain from being absorbed into the white world by its material enticements, was obviously better equipped to cope with the problems besetting his people in America, but he also believed, or hoped, that the white college student was more receptive to change than were his parents.

Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children

I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity - because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

I knew right there in prison that reading had forever changed the course of my life.

I had learned early one important thing, and that was to always teach in terms that the people could understand.