1,009 Quotes Regarding Education


I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
William Morris

See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.
Michelle Obama

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.
Donna Shalala

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
Maria Montessori

The mere imparting of information is not education.
Carter G. Woodson

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
Desmond Tutu

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.
Michelle Obama

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
William Congreve

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
James Hillman

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
Steven Spielberg

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
Desmond Tutu

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
Tallulah Bankhead

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
Tom Stoppard

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott

Freedom can occur only through education.
Friedrich Schiller

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
Wynton Marsalis

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter