Importance Of Education Quotes - Page 2

• You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

  Brigham Young

  Family, Education, Strong Women

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Change, Graduation, Education

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". "TIME" Magazine, October 8, 1965.

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Education, Teacher, Knowledge

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Erich Fromm (2012). “The Sane Society”, p.337, Routledge

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

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Patience

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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

  Confucius

  Education, Homeschooling, Certain Knowledge

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• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

  B. F. Skinner

  Graduation, Education, Teacher

  New Scientist 21 May 1964

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• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

  Mark Van Doren

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

  Education, Memories, Learning

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

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

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

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• Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

  Confucius

  Education, Wise, Clever

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Children, Real

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• My parents always stressed the importance of education, working hard in school and learning as much as possible. They also encouraged me to value myself and believe in myself and do what I thought was right for me.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, School, Parent

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• An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

  Russell Baker

  Education, Learned Person, Information

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• If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Stressed, Consciousness

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The importance of education plays a huge role.

  Wes Moore

  Play, Roles, Huge

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

  Peter Drucker

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

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• I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private-school kids. I want them to behave well by example. I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.

  Wendi Deng Murdoch

  Girl, Children, Nice

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• As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Keys, Parent

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• What did you ASK at school today?

  Richard P. Feynman

  Educational, Teaching, School

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• My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

  Dylan Thomas

  Education, Reading, Eye

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