Quotes about Education

“Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.”

“When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.”

“All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.”

“Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”

“Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.”

“I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.”

“Our education system has succeeded so far in teaching generations to do different routine tasks. So when tractors displaced farming labor, we taught the next generation to work in factories. But what we've never really been good at is teaching a huge number of people to do non-routine creative work.”

“As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.”

“There were stereotypes: you are from the communist country so you are not a hard worker. You talk awkwardly and speak with an accent and you don't have any high education like us so you are basically stupid. And I am shorter than South Koreans - I was malnourished when I was young. It made me believe I was a loser.”

“Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.”

“Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.”

“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”

“I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.”

“Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.”

“Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.”

“In the developing world, most people don't yet live in big well-run cities. Given the chance to move to one, hundreds of millions of people would go there to get a job, get an education for their children, and live in a place that is clean, safe, and healthy.”

“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.”

“There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.”

“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.”

“Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.”

“In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.”