education quotes

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Until 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.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

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

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Without 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.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Engineering 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.

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.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I hardly went to school.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

I give the children education.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.