Quotes about Education

“Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.”

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”

“I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'”

“An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.”

“What I want to see in teacher training is more talk about character education and getting teachers to really think about it. We have been careful not to define what we mean by character but we think the best schools and the best teachers know how they build strong, resilient young people.”

“For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.”

“In a world that places a growing premium on social skills, education systems need to do much better at fostering those skills systematically across the school curriculum.”

“In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.”

“You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.”

“I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?'”

“Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.”

“I am a part of everything that I have read.”

“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.”

“I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.”

“SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.”

“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”

“During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.”

“We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives.”

“To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.”

“To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.”

“Nature has always had more force than education.”