Education and Learning Quotes

"Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention."

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."

"The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture."

"The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the old economy. As a result, many high-skilled, high-paying industries suffer from a shortage of labor, while too many low-paying industries suffer from a surplus."

"I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and with what little we had, they were able to provide an education for their children."

"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

"Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence."

"I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees."

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."

"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."

"For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period."

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward."

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

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."