Education Quotes

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.

~ Mo Ibrahim

I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

~ Matthew Morrison

There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.

~ Laura San Giacomo

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

~ Maria Montessori

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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

~ Brigham Young

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.

~ Charles B. Rangel

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

~ Stuart Pearce

I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.

~ Warren Bennis

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

~ Barack Obama

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

~ Elizabeth Warren

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.

~ Frank Mccourt

As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress.

~ Charles B. Rangel

I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

~ Daniel Cormier

Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.

~ Shukla Bose

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

~ Ronaldinho

And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.

~ Terrence Howard

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

~ Mark Twain

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

~ Lee Iacocca

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

~ Ravi Zacharias

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

~ Jean Piaget

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

~ Shakuntala Devi

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

~ John F. Kennedy

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

~ Adam Grant

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

~ Maria Montessori

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

~ Matt Blunt

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

~ Clifford Stoll

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

~ Mary J. Blige

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

~ William Ralph Inge

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

~ John Locke

A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.

~ Randi Weingarten

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

~ Sam Houston

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

~ Orson Scott Card

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

~ Scott Turow

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

~ Chuck Berry

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

~ Derek Bok

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

~ Derek Bok

Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.

~ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize.

~ Sheldon Lee Glashow

When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

~ T. B. Joshua