Education And Freedom Quotes

• Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

  George Washington Carver

  Education, Teacher, Freedom

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.62, University of Missouri Press

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• Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Teaching, Democracies Have

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Jun 03, 2016

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Nov 04, 2014

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• Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Learning, Creativity

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

  James A. Garfield

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

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  I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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  For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

  John Adams

  Children, Freedom, Patriotic

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.197

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• Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the future of our nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness - for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy - for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government - for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Country, Peace

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.26, Best Books on

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  Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  James Madison

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

  1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

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• We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Art, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.356, Psychology Press

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• The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

  Diogenes

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (according to Stobæus), 1922.

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• Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Plato, Educational

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.349, Penguin

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• Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

  Winston Churchill

  Learning, School, Society

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• The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Learning, Liberty

  The American Mercury Magazine, April 24, 1924.

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Freedom, War

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Education

  "Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.

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  A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Learning, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

  Nelson Mandela

  Friendship, Inspiring, Leadership

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• ‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

  John Stuart Mill

  Education, Successful, Government

  John Stuart Mill (1978). “On Liberty”, Penguin Books

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• It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2008). “The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works”, Penguin Group(CA)

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• I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

  Agatha Christie

  Education, Children, Learning

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.62, HarperCollins UK

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