Quotes on Education For All

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other differences between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.