Education Quotes

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

~ Christopher Hitchens

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

~ Carter G. Woodson

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

~ William Jennings Bryan

I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.

~ Patty Murray

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

~ Oscar Wilde

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

~ Jean Piaget

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

~ Alice Walker

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

~ Millicent Fawcett

People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.

~ Malala Yousafzai

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

~ Harriet Martineau

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

~ Angela Merkel

A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.

~ Annalee Newitz

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

~ Antonia Fraser

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

~ Lisa Ling

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

~ Clarence Thomas

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

~ Chanakya

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.

~ Mark Pocan

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

~ Jean Piaget

A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

~ Randi Weingarten

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

~ Noam Chomsky

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

~ César Chávez

He who laughs most, learns best.

~ John Cleese

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

~ John Locke

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

~ William J. Clinton

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

~ Barack Obama

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

~ William James

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

~ Ellen Ochoa

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

~ Elizabeth Warren

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

~ Plutarch

Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.

~ Dinesh D'souza

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

~ Samuel L. Jackson

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

~ H. G. Wells

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

~ Neil Postman

We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance.

~ John Larson

I had an amazing mother. She raised nine kids, practically as a single parent, which is the hardest thing in the world. Nine of us! Day in and day out. She had to make sure we all had an education and that we all felt loved.

~ Sufe Bradshaw

Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things.

~ Tina Brown