Education - Quotes & Sayings
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert FrostThe greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael JacksonEducation's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm ForbesTo read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund BurkeThe paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James A. BaldwinThere are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
Malala YousafzaiThe aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William JamesEducation is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
Ed MarkeyWe are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques RousseauEducation then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace MannIn some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.
Malala YousafzaiThe highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath TagoreEducation is all a matter of building bridges.
Ralph EllisonWe cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Maria MontessoriBy making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.
Mark PocanA good education is a foundation for a better future.
Elizabeth WarrenWithout education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
Malcolm XThe illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Alvin TofflerEducation is the development of power and ideal.
W. E. B. Du BoisThe only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John LockeEducation is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. SkinnerWe have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.
Jim JeffordsI tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
Ellen OchoaEducation can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
Abraham MaslowI never let schooling interfere with my education.
Mark TwainOur higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
Barack ObamaI believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezThe U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change - they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker.
Miroslav LajcakEducation is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.
Nita AmbaniWhat I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
C. S. LewisEducation is the best provision for old age.
AristotleWe discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
Maria MontessoriApart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.
Kapil DevI am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.
RonaldinhoA man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore RooseveltThe direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
PlatoThe education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. LeeArts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
Heather Watts'Make in India' is great, but 'Make It Happen in India' is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It's about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering.
Joe KaeserGenius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin FranklinTrue security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
Ban Ki-moonAll I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
Malala YousafzaiNine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole FranceThe love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowOne of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
Christine GregoireTo accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
EpictetusI think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary.
Justin TrudeauThe point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.
Pierre BourdieuUntil justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. JohnsonOur youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.
Jane Fonda