Education - Quotes & Sayings

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

William J. Clinton

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Kofi Annan

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Aristotle

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

Fidel Castro

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Bill Gates

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Plato

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Francis Bacon

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Marian Wright Edelman

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

John Locke

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John F. Kennedy

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Bob Marley

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

William Bennett

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

Brad Henry

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Joseph Stalin

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

Michelle Obama

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

William Godwin

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

Kent Conrad

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Sonia Sotomayor

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

Brad Henry

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Cesar Chavez

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

Ban Ki-moon

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

Al Pacino

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

Bernie Sanders

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Jean Piaget

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

Jonathan Sacks

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Mark Twain

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

John Dewey

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

Julia Gillard

Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.

Timothy Murphy

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Ken Robinson

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Frank Zappa

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Steve Irwin

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

Phil Mickelson

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Carl Rogers