What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Joseph Addison
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. Carter G. Woodson
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. Michel de Montaigne
I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. Mikhail Baryshnikov
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. Lyndon B. Johnson
The education of women is the best way to save the environment. E. O. Wilson
'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. Alexander Pope
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Stephen King
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' Alice Walker
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. John Dewey
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. Dee Dee Myers
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. Jane Austen
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. John W. Gardner
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. William Glasser
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. Anatole France
You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education. Jeff Foxworthy
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. Thomas Huxley
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. David Suzuki