Quotes on Education

Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation.

Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.