Education Quotes

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

Thomas Jefferson

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Robert Anthony

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

Andre Braugher

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

Ian Mcewan

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nourishment, like wheat. A reasoning faculty, deprived of knowledge and wisdom, pines away. We should feel the same pity for minds that do not eat as for stomachs. If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light. All progress tends toward the solution. Some day, people will be amazed. As the human race ascends, the deepest layers will naturally emerge from the zone of distress. The effacement of wretchedness will be effected by a simple elevation level.

Victor Hugo

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Marilyn vos Savant

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

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The world is run by C students.

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Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Roger Bannister

A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Sam Houston

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

Bill Vaughan

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Sydney J. Harris

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

Ryan White

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Mary Astell

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

Susana Martinez

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

Jonathan Sacks

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

Major Owens

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

Chaka Fattah

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

Bryant H. McGill