Quotes on Education In America

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

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.

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

I know why the caged bird sings.

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.