Education Quotes - Page 6

• In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Opportunity, Skills

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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• Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

  John Ruskin

  School, Soul, Literature

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.216

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• Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Powerful Weapons, Educational

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  Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

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• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, Teacher, Appreciation

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• No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Country, Citizens

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. April 2001.

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• If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

  Will Rogers

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Sassy

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

  Philip K. Dick

  Humorous, Learning, Long

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Teaching

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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  Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Clever, Live Life, Teaching

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• Education is the movement from darkness to light.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspirational, Light, Darkness

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

  William H. Gray III

  Powerful, Liberating

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• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

  Kofi Annan

  Knowledge, Information Is Power, Progress Of Society

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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  Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  Abigail Adams

  Inspirational, Perseverance, School

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  Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Balance, Wheels

  Horace Mann (1872). “Annual Reports on Education”, p.669

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• We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

  David Warlick

  Teacher, Technology, Digital Revolution

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• Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

  Aristotle

  Success, Teaching, Adversity

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

  Will Durant

  Knowledge, Eye, Soul

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Suicide, Children, Reading

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  Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, School, Ignorance

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.578, Routledge

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• You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  New York Times, May 21, 1986.

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• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Patience, Teacher

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• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Teacher, Children

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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