Education Quotes
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I believe that higher education is one of the best investments anybody can make in their future.
Barack Obama
education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X originally Malcolm Little— African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist (1925 - 1965)
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Spectator, No. 215.
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
thomas jefferson— Letter to John Adams (1 August 1816).
So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and she has made the name of Hellas distinctive no longer of race but of intellect, and the title of Hellene a badge of education rather than of common descent.
— Isocrates, Panegyricus, 50
education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
john dewey— John Dewey (Source: My Pedagogic Creed).
In cases of rape, trying to prevent pregnancies is obviously the best thing. The morning-after pill works successfully most of the time. Ultimately we do better if we do have better education about family planning.
rand paul— Lorie Settles (26 January 2010), "US Senate hopeful Rand Paul visits Middlesboro", Middlesboro Daily News, retrieved on 2010-11-17
— Posed question: "What about instances of rape or incest or where the outcome may not be death, but severe medical problems for the mother or child. Do you think that in these cases the decision should be left to the government rather than the families?"
Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victims.
Martin Luther King Jr.— Acceptance speech, Margaret Sanger award in human rights 1966; Lamont Hempil, Sustainable communities.
Centres of learning at Walala, Djenna, and Timbuktu had a singular impact on African education in d medieval times.
— Kwame Nkrumah at the University of Ghana inauguration in 1961, quoted in Multiculturalism and Hybridity in African Literatures (2000), p.55
The city of Shillong is exposed to the outer world . This gives opportunities to the educated elite to derive major benefits of socio-economic change. English education , Christianity , spread of communication and connectivity of the region contributed to the changing process of the Khasi life in Shillong.
— Gita Pyal, in Asok Kumar Ray, Satyabrata Chakraborty Society, Politics, and Development in North East India: Essays in Memory of Dr. Basudeb Datta Ray, Concept Publishing Company, 2008, p.125
History shows that whenever an emergency arises, our national spirit is most emphatically manifested to advance the prestige and fortune of the nation. It is incumbent upon us to leave no stone unturned in order to promote loyalty and bravery on the home front as well, and to replenish and demonstrate our nation's powers, for which are required the inculcation of the spirit of reverence for deities and respect for ancestors, the renovation of national education and the of the people's physical strength.
mitsumasa yonai— alternate version: History shows that, whenever an emergency arises, our national spirit is manifested most emphatically to advance the prestige and bring about the prosperity of the nation. Nor must we be negligent in any way in promoting a loyal and heroic spirit among the home-front population so that national strength may be augmented and given full play. For this purpose, such measures as the fostering of the spirit of piety and of honouring ancestors, the renovation of national education and the improvement of the people's physical strength.
— Quoted in "Tokyo Gazette" - Page 343 - by Nihon Gaiji Kyokai. Also quoted in "Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism" - Page 19 - by Daniel Clarence Holtom - 1963
It (insecurity) is a feeling that is deeply felt and is shared by most members of my community, irrespective of religion, status, education, background or place of origin.
ratu joni madraiwiwi— Speech to the Fiji Law Society, 2 July 2005
...[T]ry not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as the majority of my readers, and the education they have received about it from the government's public school system is nothing more than a septic tank full of warmed-over self-serving statist lies and leftist propaganda.
l. neil smith— "Only Nixon,"[17] 9 November 2008
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life. This is our modern danger one of the waxen wings of flight. It may cause our civilization to fall unless we act quickly to counteract it, unless we realize that human character is more important than efficiency, that education consists of more than the mere accumulation of knowledge.
charles lindbergh— Reader's Digest (November 1939), "Aviation, Geography, and Race," pp. 64-67.
education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
— Alexis Herman, in Praeger Handbook on Understanding and Preventing Workplace Discrimination ..., p.13
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
Buchan, John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir— 1940 Memory Hold-the-Door, ch.2.
I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany.
hermann göring— To Leon Goldensohn (28 May 1946)
"In the same way that the Soviets' Sputnik satellite woke up the country to the need for math and science education, the outsourcing conversation cries out for a constructive, long-term solution that ensures Americans have world-class education, a world-class workforce and the ability to remain a competitive global leader." (2004)
— "High Tech, Strangled By the Beltway", The Washington Post, 13 March 2004
— Note: The context of this quote was an article on the offshoring of American labor.
It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition, especially from the unlearned among the Christians, who thought that it savoured of Polytheism , that it was introduced by those who had had a philosophical education, and was by degrees adopted by others, on account of its covering the great offence of the cross , by exalting the personal dignity of our Saviour.
joseph priestley— Part I : The History of Opinions Relating to Jesus Christ, § IV : Of the Difficulty with which the Doctrine of the Divinity of Christ was Established.
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.
thomas sowell— Thomas Sowell (2007-09-03). Random Thoughts. Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.
african spir— p. 57 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.
William A. Henry III— William A. Henry III (1995) In Defense of Elitism
education is the great equalizer, and shouldn’t be limited to the wealthiest few.
jim clyburn— "House Approves Largest Investment in Higher Education Since GI Bill". Representative Jim Clyburn. United States House of Representatives (11 July 2007). Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
