Quotes about Education

“Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.”

“We cannot learn men from books.”

“Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.”

“I cannot live without books.”

“I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.”

“There is nothing more important to improve humanity than education.”

“Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.”

“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”

“My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.”

“Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system.”

“I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.”

“It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.”

“I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.”

“My education, drive, and commitment have afforded me every opportunity I have ever sought.”

“Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education.”

“Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.”

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.”

“Man is what he reads.”

“Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.”

“I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.”

“The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.”