Education and Learning Quotes

"The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth."

"The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones."

"Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum."

"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."

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers."

"Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people."

"I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university."

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

"It's hard to improve public education - that's clear."

"The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work."

"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."

"We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system."

"I'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period."

"No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections."

"Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom."

"I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."

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

"Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right."

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

"Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning."

"Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general."

"You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine."

"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."

"Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate."

"Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education."

"I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education."

"I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted."

"Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing."

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."

"We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men."

"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."

"There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education."

"Nature has always had more force than education."

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

"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."

"We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens."

"I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family."

"I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life."

"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."

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

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

"I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart."

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."

"Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation."

"Education is what you learn after you leave school."

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

"You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today."

"Education is for growth and fulfillment."

"The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves and their families, enjoy leisure time, save for retirement and pay for their children's education so they can grow up and earn even more than their parents."

"Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination."