Top 1200 Great Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

Education is about remembering stuff and I could never remember anything, so I didn't get an education.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

I learned that education and sport are the bedrock for any person, but education comes first, no doubt about it.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement...We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize education in America.

Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.

No family should feel they need to leave San Francisco to find a great public education.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Our inner cities are almost at an all-time low, run by the Democrats for sometimes more than a hundred years, chain unbroken. So they have no jobs. They have horrible education. They have no safety or security and I say to the African-American community, what the hell do you have to lose? I will fix it. I will fix it. I will make it good. I'll bring back our jobs. We'll have good education. We'll have great safety in the inner city.

America needs the best education system in the world. We have it in higher education. We do not have it in general education for all of our people - the K-12 education. Other nations are far, far outdoing the United States in that area. We still have the lead in research, but once again, other nations are pouring more into research also. We still have a lead, but to me it's just very, very important that we keep that lead in basic research.

I think it's the most important thing, education. Because without education it's difficult to face life.

I saw first-hand that all schools are not created equal, and the students shouldn't have to go without all of the materials that they need for a great education.

I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

If there is no education, there will be poverty. I believe in it strongly and feel that through education we can address the issue effectively.

I'm a beneficiary of an extraordinary education, and I believe that no matter where you live, the access to education is key to social mobility.

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned

It is education which can liberate you and I believe girls should get the best education.

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.

Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him

I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.

City were great to me in so many ways for the education and the people I was able to work with. I will be forever grateful for that.

I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.