Education Quotes

The only thing we wanted our young organization to give was an opportunity. We would say to children and to their families: If you are willing to work hard and make sacrifices and think long term, then Room to Read is the best organization for you. If you're looking for a handout, then you should look elsewhere.

~ John Wood

We had a policy of no looking back. Once a decision was made, all members of our team were expected to stop talking about obstacles and instead focus intensely on solutions.Don't tell us all the reasons this might not work. Tell us all the ways it could work.

~ John Wood

EVERYONE NEED EDUCATION,ITS THE NEED OF A NATION,IN IT IS FUTURE'S FOUNDATION,IT LEADS TO HEARTS ASPIRATION,AND TOMORROWS INSPIRATION.

~ Merlin8Thomas

One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

~ H.w. Brands

We hear so often that we must read but what is more important and often not advised is to always think and question what we read.Reading, retaining and repeating is often called education. Wisdom is when we can read, question, adapt and apply what is relevant to the time and space in which we exist.

~ Lennox D.lampkin

Reading will help you to discover your sacred-self

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will find the reality of life by reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The more you read, the more you will love to read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Books are sacred wisdom.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To be ignorant is to waste the talents you were born with. To be ignorant is to confine your life to a path no different than the generations before you

~ Linda Cardillo

Reading is my breath.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no great companion like a book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I love reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every child should be taught how to read, write and think.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A book is a sacred gift.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A life without books is empty.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Make time to read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The pleasure of reading is indescribable.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Passion is a deep love for sacred activity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Educate thyself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Science is a careful investigation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This is the setting out.The leaving of everything behind.Leaving the social milieu. The preconceptions.The definitions. The language. The narrowed field of vision. The expectations.No longer expecting relationships, memories, words, or letters to mean what they used to mean. To be, in a word: Open.

~ —Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

This is part of the answer to the riddle ofchildhood unhappiness: their minds need, and deserve, a whole world of utterly unfenceable freedom where everything has othering, everything is radiant with the possibilities ofelseness.

~ Jay Griffeths

People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions.

~ Amit Kalantri

Wisdom is worth more than gold.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With conscious effort, you can be a reader.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

College is not important, knowledge is

~ Abhishek Mishra

College is not important, knowledge is

~ Abhishek Mishra

The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and begin to look for excitement in less productive places.

~ John Howard Griffin

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.

~ John Howard Griffin

I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books.

~ Anonymous

Passion lights the fire in every soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Be driven by your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The more you learn, the more you know, you don’t know enough.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness … , but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference … that was only … pierced when creative desire enveloped me like ether.

~ Hermann Hesse

The strength of a country derives from the educational levels of the individuals in that nation.

~ Debasish Mridha

Education shows the path to the door of opportunity. It gives confidence and hope to open it.

~ Debasish Mridha

Self-knowledge is the greatest education.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita