I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
Edmund HillaryEducation is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
James BaldwinIt is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James BaldwinA self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Henny YoungmanStudies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
Stephen CoveyYoung men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.
Russell M. NelsonYou may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiBetween the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.
Charles BukowskiTo educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore RooseveltI believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.
Stephen CoveyThe chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert FrostYou can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.
Ray BradburyIf a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamA thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore RooseveltThe first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John RuskinSo we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.
Michelle ObamaEngineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.
Herbert HooverThere is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will RogersThe business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren BuffettThe Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.
Lou HoltzA 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 RooseveltIt doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.
Bad BunnyThe task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. LewisI wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.
Virat KohliNo man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
J. Robert OppenheimerNatural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.
Ray BradburyPoverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo GalileiThe highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch SpinozaOne of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.
Nipsey HussleMy kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.
Kevin HartTo 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.
EpictetusMy mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.
Kamala HarrisEducation is hanging around until you’ve caught on.
Robert FrostYou’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.
Harper LeePurity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mahatma GandhiThe smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren BuffettWithout education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
Nelson MandelaThe internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
Noam ChomskyWouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
Colin PowellThe philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham LincolnThe idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.
Robert KiyosakiFor good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
PlatoMy mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThe highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.
John KennedyI just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.
Greta ThunbergHistorically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
Stephen CoveyWe are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWhy don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will RogersWe should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean-Jacques RousseauA teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry AdamsIn truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI would fain grow old learning many things.
PlatoStudy hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
Che GuevaraEducators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
John C. MaxwellMost of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.
John KennedyWhen you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.
Dolores HuertaMy husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
Dolly Parton