Quotes on Education

Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

Conscious listening is very largely overlooked in the mainstream of education. It's such an important skill in life. And yet we expect children to pick it up from home or from peers informally.

Investing in better-quality education outcomes - especially in maths and science - more than pays for itself.

Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life?

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

Policies to strengthen education and training, to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and to promote capital investment, both public and private, could all potentially be of great benefit in improving future living standards in our nation.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.