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
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Spectator, No. 215.
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)
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).
education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
john dewey— John Dewey (Source: My Pedagogic Creed).
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
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
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
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
Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.
jim stanford— Economics For Everyone, Part 3, Chapter 15, Capitalism and the Environment (2008, p. 183)
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
— Sargent Shriver, in Point of the lance, p.143
She in beauty, education, blood, holds hand with any princess of the world.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act II, scene 1, line 493.
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 not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.
philip wylie— Philip Wylie, in Generation of Vipers (1942), p. 324
education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Plutarch— Often misattributed to Socrates.
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
b. f. skinner— As quoted in Performance-based Assessment for Middle and High School Physical Education (2002) by Jacalyn Lea Lund and Mary Fortman Kirk, p. 165
This reduction implies the release of funds for development and a shift of the labour force previously dedicated to military industries toward peaceful activities, protection of human rights, conservation of the environment, the eradication of illiteracy, promotion of education and scientific research together with enhanced efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals and implement the agenda for the post-2015 period.
alfred de zayas— CELAC / Zone of Peace: “A key step to countering the globalization of militarism” – UN Expert [73]
A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but “specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.”
— Leo Strauss, “What is liberal education,” Liberalism, Ancient and Modern (1968), p. 5 (The phrase “specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.” is from Max Weber)
