“We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?”
Lydia Sigourney (1791–1865) American poet
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 51.
Interview, Jewish Chronicle, 7 March 2008 http://thejc.com/home.aspx?AId58607&ATypeId1&searchtrue2&srchstrLev%20leviev&srchtxt1&srchhead1&srchauthor1&srchsandp1&scsrch0
“We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?”
Lydia Sigourney (1791–1865) American poet
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 51.
“We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.”
Joycelyn Elders (1933) American pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States
On sex education <br class="br">Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" http://www.sho.com/site/video/player.do?video=/134/2006/abstinence&seriesid=134 [4.10], 5 June 2006
Zoran Đinđić (1952–2003) Serbian politician
From Zoran Djindjic's speech at press conference From vision to defined program, 15.01.2002.
Edward Bernays (1891–1995) American public relations consultant, marketing pioneer
Source: Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923), p. 212
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
As quoted in Stepping Stones : The Complete Bible Narratives (1941)
Disputed
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
“Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Remarks Intended for Delivery to the Texas Democratic State Committee in the Municipal Auditorium in Austin
Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001221/122102Eo.pdf Page53-56
Education for All People and Education for Life