Education Quotes

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

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

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life?

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.