Quotes about Education

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

“Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.”

“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.”

“Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“The more education you do, the less you are capable of doing.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.”

“The best education I have ever received was through travel.”

“It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.”

“I believe that the key to building a strong economy in Wisconsin starts with education. Every single kid in our state deserves access to a good public education, no matter their zip code.”

“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”

“My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.”

“I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.”

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

“If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.”

“No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.”

“Education is important because it prepares you for life.”

“The willingness to learn new skills is very high.”

“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”

“Our universities and museums are respected around the country.”