Quotes about Education

“Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.”

“Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.”

“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.”

“I found that I can never know enough, and that many times the best form of education is through communication.”

“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.”

“The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.”

“My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.”

“It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.”

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”

“Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.”

“Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn't a leader, it is education.”

“The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.”

“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”

“Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.”

“There is no education like adversity.”

“The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.”

“Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.”

“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”

“I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.”

“Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.”

“By providing every student with a quality education, and the materials they need for class and to do their homework, we can help students from all backgrounds learn and thrive.”