Quotes about: education


Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
– Nelson Mandela

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
– Lord Brougham
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
– Henry B. Adams
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
– Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
– Joseph Addison
I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
– Daniel Akaka
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
– Buzz Aldrin
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
– Woody Allen
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
– Woody Allen
I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
– Sparky Anderson
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
– Maya Angelou
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
– Maya Angelou
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
– Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age.
– Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
– Aristotle
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
– Isaac Asimov
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
– Nancy Astor
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
– Brooks Atkinson
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.
– Christopher Andreae
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
– Sir Francis Bacon
When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.
– Frank Baer
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
We must tell it to the world that the higher education is necessary to the best agriculture. We must tell our friends of our enthusiasm for the generous life of the country. We must say that we believe in our ability to make good use of every lesson which the University has given us. We must say to every man that our first love is steadfast, our hopes are high, and our enthusiasm is great. Our hearts are so full that we must celebrate.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.
– Howard Baker
Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.
– John Elias Baldacci
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
– James A. Baldwin
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
– James A. Baldwin
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
– Hosea Ballou
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
– Tallulah Bankhead
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.
– Jacques Barzun
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
– Jacques Barzun
We must continue working to make flu education a priority along with vaccine production to effectively prepare ourselves against another epidemic.
– Evan Bayh
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty-how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
– Henry Ward Beecher
I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
– Annie Besant
The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.
– Jeff Bingaman
I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.
– Rod Blagojevich
Education is a cornerstone of civilization, the strongest reinforcement that we can build to bridge the two Louisianas.
– Kathleen Blanco
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
– Kathleen Blanco
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
– Allan Bloom
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
– Allan Bloom
Public education is an investment in our future.
– Matt Blunt
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
– Matt Blunt
Education is so important when it comes to domesticity. I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.
– Erma Bombeck
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
– Christopher Bond
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
– Daniel J. Boorstin
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
– Barbara Boxer
As you may be aware, the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law by the President on January 8, 2002. I was happy to support this bill, which was the result of months of intense bipartisan negotiations. This legislation sets the stage for a limited, but productive, role for the federal government in the education of our nation's children.
– Allen Boyd
Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.
– Allen Boyd
My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. I'm going to work as hard as I know how, and I'm going to ask each of you to help me to offer all Tennessee children the education they need to energize their God-given talents to take them as far as they can go.
– Phil Bredesen
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
– Charlotte Bronte
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
– John Mason Brown
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
– Jean de la Bruyere
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
– Conrad Burns
Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
– George W. Bush
The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.
– Lord Byron
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
– Michael Badnarik
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
– William C. Bagley
To that end I am proposing an agenda that can be summed up by three words: Momentum, UpGrade and Streamline. We must continue our Momentum in job creation and economic growth, UpGrade education in this tough budget period and Streamline that budget back into structural balance.
– Haley Barbour
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
– Bill Beattie
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
– Bob Beauprez
Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing the benefits and costs. Benefits include cultural and other non-monetary gains along with improvement in earnings and occupations, while costs usually depend mainly on the foregone value of the time spent on these investments.
– Gary Becker
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
– Gary Becker
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
– Avery Brundage
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
– Avery Brundage
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
– Michael Caine
I believe that we must work to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies through education and family planning. But I also believe that our Constitution protects a woman's right to privacy, and that this constitutional right encompasses the decision of whether to terminate a pregnancy.
– Maria Cantwell
Education has always served to increase my awareness. Teaching helps me better understand what it is that I do.
– Ron Carter
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
– George Washington Carver
Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
– G. K. Chesterton
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
– G. K. Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
– G. K. Chesterton
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
– G. K. Chesterton
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
– G. K. Chesterton
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
– G. K. Chesterton
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
– Noam Chomsky
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
– Sir Winston Churchill
The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
– Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
– Hillary Clinton
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
– Bill Clinton
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
– Thad Cochran
As tuition rises, the road to higher education in America gets steeper and harder to climb for lower and middle-income families.
– Susan Collins
With education costs continuing to rise at both public and private institutions, I believe that increases in grant aid are needed.
– Susan Collins
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
– William Congreve
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
– Kent Conrad
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
– Norman Cousins
Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.
– Frank Crane
The American people are much more concerned about taxes, welfare, the deficit, crime, education, drugs, and way down somewhere low is that matter of nuclear weapon danger. So our task now is to convince the American people that it's more dangerous now than it was during the Cold War, and that's a fact.
– Alan Cranston
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
– Mary S. Calderone
The Bahamas seeks to lead the way by its investment in education, in social programmes for the poor, disadvantaged, disabled and dispossessed. The largest budget item in The Bahamas is that segment dedicated to education. We will continue to invest in education because we know that the way to eliminate poverty is though the education of our citizens, and the development of the human person.
– Perry Christie
I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to America in the early 1900's. My father was a tailor and my mother, a housewife. Though of limited education themselves, they instilled in me the values of intellectual achievement and the use of whatever talents I possessed.
– Stanley N. Cohen
If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.
– Robert Coleman
I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.
– Alan Colmes
The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.
– Lesley Conger
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
– Bishop Mandell Creighton
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
– Clarence Darrow