Education and Learning Quotes

"Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness."

"There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service."

"Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion."

"The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect."

"The education of women is the best way to save the environment."

"To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live."

"There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education."

"Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."

"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."

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

"In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond."

"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."

"It is difficult to think of a major industry that AI will not transform. This includes healthcare, education, transportation, retail, communications, and agriculture. There are surprisingly clear paths for AI to make a big difference in all of these industries."

"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."

"Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country."

"Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other."

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

"I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you."

"My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble."

"We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me."

"Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted."

"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."

"My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all."

"The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries."

"There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people."

"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."

"Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense."

"My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties."

"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."

"Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away."

"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."

"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."

"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."

"The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California."

"For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul."

"In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?"

"When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition."

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

"Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'"

"When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone."

"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."

"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education."

"The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans."

"If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education."

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

"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."

"President Obama's Department of Education pledged to solve the student debt crisis, but it was utterly inept in its effort to address the issue."

"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."

"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."