Quotes about Education

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

“We can all agree that we need to be helping small businesses. All of us can agree that the cost of higher education is too high, and college debt is too big of a burden for young people.”

“The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.”

“Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.”

“You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.”

“I was probably 13 or 14 when I realised I had a chance to make it. That's when I realised that a bit of education had to be sacrificed in order to become a footballer.”

“In society, we have to earn other things of import like trust, respect, money, education, careers, status and etc., so naturally, we find ourselves attempting to earn love, acceptance and validation along with that. Here's the trip: we do it at the cost of other people and, more importantly, ourselves.”

“Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.”

“My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.”

“From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.”

“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”

“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.”

“Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.”

“An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.”

“I believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.”

“Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.”

“In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared.”

“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”

“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”

“Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.”

“This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.”