Education Quotes

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

Frederic Bastiat

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

William Glasser

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

Robert C. Savage

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Wendell Phillips

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.

John L. Mason

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

David Hume

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

Hillary Clinton

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

Anthony Weiner

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Andrew Cuomo

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

John Dewey

You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.

Meg Whitman

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

Jami Gertz

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins:--Politics without principle.--Wealth without work.--Commerce without morality.--Pleasure without conscience.--Education without character.--Science without humility.--Worship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Essentialists hope that when students leave school, they will possess not only basic skills and an extensive body of knowledge, but also disciplined, practical minds, capable of applying schoolhouse lessons in the real world.

William C. Bagley

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

H. L. Mencken

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

Kerry Washington

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

Morris Dees