Quotes about Education
One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.
— Ezra Taft Benson
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.
— CS Lewis
Education is an asset no man can take away.
— George Eliot
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
— Martin Luther
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
— John Milton
I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.
— Barack Obama
I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.
— Muhammad Ali
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.