Education Quotes

Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.

Frank Crane

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Arthur Ashe

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

Jonathan Sacks

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

John Ruskin

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

Philip Pullman

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

Danny Glover

We 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 Montessori

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education

Paul Karl Feyerabend

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Norman Cousins

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

John Locke

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

Barack Obama

We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

Dan Lipinski

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

Bill Richardson

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

Gary Neville

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

Stockwell Day

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Robert M. Hutchins

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Horace Mann

This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents are afraid of the board of education. The board is afraid of the parents. The parents are afraid of the children. The children are afraid of nothing!

Milton Berle

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools

William John Bennett