Quotes about Education

“Education is a precondition to survival in America today.”

“The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.”

“I can't believe I managed to go through a liberal-arts and theater education and take all these women's-studies classes and never have addressed that the 'Muppets' were all boys, except for one pig who was obsessed with herself!”

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”

“There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.”

“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”

“I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!”

“I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.”

“Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.”

“I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.”

“The challenge is to replace our broken higher education system with one that has the potential to transform the lives of individuals and to create opportunity.”

“The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.”

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”

“It's wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.”

“It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.”

“We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.”

“Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.”

“One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.”

“Martial arts should be part of every girl's education.”

“The quality of your public education shouldn't be defined by your zip code.”