Quotes about Education

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

“When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.”

“Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.”

“Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.”

“I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.”

“You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.”

“True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.”

“Free education for all - whilst it is a desirable notion, in South Africa it will simply not be affordable.”

“Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.”

“We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.”

“Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.”

“In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.”

“Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.”

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'”

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

“Play is the work of the child.”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”