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Education Quotes
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
149
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
74
"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
70
"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development."
61
"Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing."
51
"If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race."
46
"I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question."
45
"With the establishment of a presence in all three counties of Delaware, recruitment in and outside Delaware and throughout the world and new master's and doctoral programs, Delaware State University will continue to grow and attract even more qualified students."
44
"Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual."
43
"I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable."
43
"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either."
42
"Freedom can occur only through education."
42
"Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization."
41
"The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject."
40
"A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised."
40
"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future."
37
"Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development."
36
"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."
34
"Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future."
33
"A totally new kind of education is needed in the world. The person who is born to be a poet is proving himself stupid in mathematics and the person who could have been a great mathematician is just cramming history and feeling lost. Everything is topsy-turvy because education is not according to your nature: it does not pay any respect to the individual. It forces everybody into a certain pattern."
29
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
28
"They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people."
28
"Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him."
25
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
24
"So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education."
23
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