Quotes on Basic Education

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

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

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.