Quotes about Education
We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.
— Carl Sagan
Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
— Malcolm X
A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
— Brian Tracy
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
— Aristotle
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
— Mark Twain
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences
— John Adams
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
— Aristotle
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
— George Washington
The giving of love is an education in itself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt