Quotes about Education
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
— Maya Angelou
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
— Karl Barth
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
— Frank Herbert
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.
— Fred Craddock
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
— Frederick Douglass
The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
— Brendon Burchard
The gospel that proclaims the intrinsic worth, sacred value, and essential dignity of human beings encourages our work for equal rights, good housing, good medical care, and good education, and our fight for justice and peace in the world.
— Henri Nouwen
They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.
— Henry David Thoreau
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
— Henry David Thoreau