Education Quotes

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

I don’t think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

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

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.

Education is everything – education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don’t think that’s what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

I was supposed to move into a new place and it fell through. So for five months before Sex Education, I was couch-surfing among all my friends. I didn’t have a home.

We learned that kicking down doors to free children from carpet factories isn’t enough to stop child labour – we had to tackle the underlying poverty in which their families lived, through education.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

Early childhood education remains one of the strongest investments we can make in the long-term success of our students and the long-term economic strength of our communities.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty – not marble floors and foundations.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Education is the development of power and ideal.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

Like most fathers, I would do anything for my children, and I’ve worked very hard at trying to be a good father. I want to give them education, security, everything I never had.

High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one’s life.

I don’t believe in private education.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

I’d like to work with kids in special education – younger kids.

Learn to think continentally.

Education from six-year-old to 14 is compulsory in Nigeria, but the simple fact is that a lack of resources, coupled with peoples’ inability to afford books and uniforms mean the reality for millions of Nigerian children is a life without education.