Quotes about Education

“A college education shows a man how little other people know.”

“The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things.”

“Education is the most powerful tool for everything but certainly to create opportunities for yourself, and I know that not everyone has the privilege of an education like here in America.”

“Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.”

“The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.”

“Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.”

“Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.”

“The psychology of education is all about how the society gets benefited from it.”

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”

“At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.”

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”

“It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.”

“To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.”

“I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.”

“As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, I understand the importance access to high quality education plays in preparing our children to learn and compete in a competitive, global workforce.”

“When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.”

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”

“The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.”

“You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.”

“Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.”

“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”