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Quotes About Awareness

Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~ Will Durant
I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.
~ Amartya Sen
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
~ E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.
~ Roy Wilkins
Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
~ Horace
The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.
~ Johnnetta B. Cole
I recognize the lion by his paw.
~ Unknown
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Education is a vaccine for violence.
~ Edward James Olmos
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
~ Ryan White
Education is civil defence against media fallout.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
~ Martha Gellhorn
The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.
~ Joycelyn Elders
All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.
~ David Hawkins
It is hard to learn when we think we know something.
~ Peter Block
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
~ Pauline Phillips
Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
~ Frederick Douglass
Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most
~ Ralph Fiennes
True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
~ Anatole France
Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.
~ James Bryant Conant
Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.
~ Sylvia Ashton-Warner
The best marketing is education.
~ Regis McKenna