Education Quotes

You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.

When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

For me, education was power.

I taught myself algebra and a little grammar, and somehow I scraped a high enough score on the ACT to be admitted to Brigham Young University, even though I had no formal education.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

August Wilson is the one writer that writes about men like my father, who had a fifth grade education, who was a janitor at McDonald's.

They call Howard University the 'capstone of black education.' Howard was one of the historically black colleges where people want to go and send their children. Both of my grandfathers went through the medical school, and being in D.C., not far from New York City, it was a natural choice for me.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination.