Quotes about Education
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true and all others are not.
— Jerry Falwell
I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
— Ben Carson
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
— John Wooden
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
— Margaret Mead
I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
— Malala Yousafzai
When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world.
— Abhijit Banerjee
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
— Joseph Addison
More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.
— Julie Andrews
We need a lot more technically literate people. The computers are the tools that are going to solve essentially all problems, and the people who can use them better will be more effective.
— Tobias Lutke
Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.
— Woodrow Wilson
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
— Lewis Carroll