Quotes about Education

“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.”

“The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.”

“Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.”

“A one-size-fits-all lecture is not the way to go about education.”

“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”

“An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.”

“I have a vision of education that spans from early childhood to K-12 to college to the workforce. Because every step along the way is important: a chance for our state to do right by our kids and their parents - or to let them down.”

“I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.”

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”

“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.”

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”

“I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.”

“My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I think he'd have been pleased if I'd made a career of working in the shoe store. But my mother was ambitious. She encouraged us to read books, and she pushed us toward a musical education.”

“In my house, education was the paramount value. And if you grew up in a neighborhood like mine, you were forced to decide early on what you stood for in life, because there were a lot of peer pressures that could take you the wrong way.”

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”

“I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages?”

“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”