Quotes on Education

I thought, 'Let's make it a check list. What if I got my education even though I lost my mother, even though my dad is in a shelter?' and looking at these things as hurdles to go over. I could inspire myself.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.

I was really lucky because I went to an all-girl school, and that single-sex education really helped me because I really learned to bond with women and to not compete with or compare myself as much because we were all allowed to be ourselves and be unique and kind of have our unique strengths.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

Somehow, there is this feeling that women require remedial financial education, and so everything must be dumbed down. The reality is that we all need a lot more education, but guys just go ahead and invest anyway.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

When you look at human rights, look at gender, and the rights of girls for education in the world - that are crucial issues - some are saying 'Oh, these are western values.' But these are really universal values.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life.

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.