Education Quotes

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

Few things are as essential as education.

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

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.

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.