Quotes about Education

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

After God had carried us safe to New-England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for Gods worship, and setled the Civill Government: One of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust.

The man who doesn't read hasn't any advantage over the man who can't read.

I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Until the great mobs could be educated into a moral sense, someone must cry: Thou shalt not!