Education and Learning Quotes

"A child miseducated is a child lost."

"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."

"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them."

"After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life."

"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves."

"All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one."

"All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear."

"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."

"An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently."

"An educated people can be easily governed."

"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."

"An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate."

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

"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."

"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either."

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

"As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people."

"Because financially capable consumers ultimately contribute to a stable economic and financial system as well as improve their own financial situations, it's clear that the Federal Reserve has a significant stake in financial education."

"Books, the children of the brain."

"By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man."

"Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream."

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

"Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty."

"Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school."

"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."

"Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support."

"Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education."

"Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'"

"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."

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

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."

"Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent."

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

"Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others."

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education."

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

"During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education."

"Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society."

"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."

"Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities."

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

"Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself."

"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought."