Quotes on Education

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible.

These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

In America we have big issues with education - in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we're encouraging more people to get into teaching.

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.