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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."
169
"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."
124
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
101
"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development."
94
"Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization."
84
"Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing."
81
"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either."
77
"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness."
77
"Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual."
75
"I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable."
72
"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."
71
"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."
71
"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."
71
"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."
71
"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."
70
"Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development."
68
"Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation."
64
"Freedom can occur only through education."
63
"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."
55
"Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future."
55
"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."
53
"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future."
52
"I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing."
49
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
48
"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."
46
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
45
"Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him."
43
"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."
43
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
41
"As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it."
41
"Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."
41
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