Quotes about Education

“One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.”

“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”

“Our education system must promote nationalism but should be modern and relevant to contemporary needs.”

“Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.”

“Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.”

“To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.”

“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.”

“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”

“There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors.”

“Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.”

“Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.”

“In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.”

“It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.”

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.”

“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”

“My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.”

“Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.”

“Getting more girls a good education requires an approach that harnesses the collective efforts of developing nations, donor nations, multilateral organizations, NGOs, private-sector institutions.”

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”