Quotes about education

A collection of quotes on the topic of education, people, can, use.

Best quotes about education

„Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.“

— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC

„Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.“

— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968

Variant: Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.

„The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.“

— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

„The education of a man is never completed until he dies.“

— Robert E. Lee Confederate general in the Civil War 1807 - 1870

As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 175

„Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.“

— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

„Only the educated are free.“

— Epictetus philosopher from Ancient Greece 50 - 138

Discourses
Variant: ...none ought to be educated but the free;...
Book II, ch. 1.

„I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.“

— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

Variant: Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

„You can never be overdressed or overeducated.“

— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900

„One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.“

— Abraham Maslow, book Motivation and Personality

Source: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 255.

„Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world“

— Nelson Mandela President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist 1918 - 2013

" Lighting your way to a better future : Speech delivered by Mr N R Mandela at launch of Mindset Network http://db.nelsonmandela.org/speeches/pub_view.asp?pg=item&ItemID=NMS909&txtstr=education%20is%20the%20most%20powerful," July 16, 2003 at db.nelsonmandela.org. ; Cited in: Nelson Mandela, ‎S. K. Hatang, ‎Sahm Venter (2012) Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom. p. 101.
2000s
Context: Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world and is a powerful part of that world changing arsenal.

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„To achieve this, we have to distinctively promote continuing and lifelong education, the form of education which is responsive to individual needs and preferences. With educational facilities and a variety of educational programs available, people can make use of the learning centre as a place to acquire technical skills or knowledge adaptive to their work and daily life activities.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

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Education for All People and Education for Life

Life, People, Knowledge, Learning

„Education, therefore, has to be organized in such a way that people from all walks of life can participate in educational activities at levels and times of their preference.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Education for All People and Education for Life

Life, People, Way, Time

„The objective of education reform is to creat learning individual, organization, and society. An educated person or the authentic learning outcome should possess the following abilities and characteristics which are based on Thai cultural heritage and appropriate level of education: good physical and mental health, critical thinking, intellectual inquisitiveness, professionalism, sense of responsibility, honesty, selfsacrifice, perseverance, team spirit, adherence to democracy, and love for King, Country and Religion.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

The Reason and the objective of Education Reform

Love, Health, Religion, Democracy

„The goal of the education reform is to realize the potential of Thai people to develop themselves for a better quality of life and to develop the national into peaceful co-existence in the global community.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jcrdaen/1/1/1_KJ00006742072/_pdf
Education for Peace

Life, People, Peace, Communication

„and should be entitled to have access to education according to their competency and needs.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Education for All People and Education for Life

„We cannot deny that people who know more about the educational needs of local people are those who work and live within that community.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

All for Education
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People, Communication

„With regard to the learning society, as I mentioned earlier, optimistically, people from all walks of life should be able to have equal access to education according to their needs and potentials.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Education for All People and Education for Life

Life, People, Learning

„Economic, social, political, environmental and population development in Thailand have created a series of problems that must be addressed addressesed by education.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

The Reason and the objective of Education Reform

Problem

„At the very beginning, the crucial element to be considered for education reform is the management system. The administrative power, in particular, has to be shifted to local authorities, and local participation in the school management is essentially encouraged.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

All for Education

School

„It is essential that the government provide educational services that respond to the people’s needs“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Education for All People and Education for Life

People

„I strongly believe that, as a citizen of the world, any person has the right to learn“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Education for All People and Education for Life

World, Learning, Personality

„Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.“

— Zhuangzi classic Chinese philosopher -369 - -286 BC

„Education is the result of self-learning, being taught by one or more people. Learning is the key word here. Schools, colleges and universities only divide you into CLASSES according to your level of understanding.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Learning, People, Universe, School

„The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.“

— Martin Buber German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878 - 1965

As quoted in Encounter with Martin Buber (1972) by Aubrey Hodes, p. 135

Communication

„For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.“

— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
Interviews

Love, Death, God, War

„To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.“

— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919

Personality

„The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.“

— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987

Learning, Change, Personality

„I have a really interesting political point of view, and it’s not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can’t go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can’t. I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics ever since.“

— Robert Downey Jr. American actor 1965

Quoted in David Carr, "Been Up, Been Down. Now? Super." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/movies/20carr.html?_r=4&pagewanted=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&, New York Times (2008-04-20)

Understanding, Night

„Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.“

— Ali, book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

Training

„It's all true that education will make you intelligent. But it can't automatically make you a good person too.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Personality, Intelligence

„It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.“

— Aristotle, book Metaphysics

Attributed to Aristotle in Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth http://books.google.gr/books?id=2HPUAAAAMAAJ&q=, Deseret Book Company, 1959, p. 52, and in American Opinion, Volume 24 http://books.google.gr/books?id=irofAQAAMAAJ&q=, Robert Welch, Inc., 1981, p. 23. Possibly a discombobulation http://publicnoises.blogspot.fi/2009/02/aristotle-and-accuracy.html of the Nicomachean Ethics Book I, 1094b.24 quote above.
Disputed
Source: Metaphysics

Wise, Graduation

„Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.“

— Stephen Fry English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist 1957

Variant: Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

„Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.“

— Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965

Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
By any means necessary: speeches, interviews, and a letter (1970)
Variant: The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Source: Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power
Context: Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.

People, Future, Graduation

„The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.“

— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941

The Scouter http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/outlook.html (January, 1912)

Secret, Knowledge, Learning

„Education doesn't make you smarter.“

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian writer 1918 - 2008

„Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.“

— Arthur Conan Doyle Scottish physician and author 1859 - 1930

Source: His Last Bow: 8 Stories

„The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.“

— Ernesto Che Guevara Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928 - 1967

„Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.“

— Will Durant American historian, philosopher and writer 1885 - 1981

Quoted in "Books: The Great Gadfly", Time magazine, 8 October 1965 (review of The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant)
Context: Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

„Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.“

— John Dewey American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer 1859 - 1952

This is a paraphrase of an idea that Dewey expressed using other words in My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and Democracy and Education (1916); it is widely misattributed to Dewey as a quotation.
Cf. James William Norman, A Comparison of Tendencies in Secondary Education in England and the United States (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1922), [//books.google.com/books?id=qrmgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA140 p. 140] (emphasis added): "...there has for years been a strong and growing tendency in the United States under the leadership of Dewey, and more recently of Kilpatrick, to find an educational method correlative of democracy in society with the belief that education is life itself rather than a mere preparation for life, and that practice in democratic living is the best preparation for democracy."
Misattributed
Variant: Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.

Life, Courageous, Graduation, Teachers' Day

„Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?“

— Michael Faraday English scientist 1791 - 1867

„Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.“

— Aristophanés Athenian playwright of Old Comedy -448 - -386 BC

Fictional attribution in the movie The Emperor's Club (2002), given by Kevin Kline (as William Hundert); also attributed to Diogenes, without sources; no published occurrences of this statement prior to the movie have been located in any of the Aristophanes Plays or Fragments.
Misattributed
Source: IMDb, "Memorable quotes for The Emperor's Club" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283530/quotes, Internet Movie Database, www.imdb.com
Source: Two pages attributing it to Diogenes: http://www.prohibitionists.org/Background/Party_Platform/quickquotes/QQ-education.htm http://www.ryanbalton.com/funstuff/forb_seniorquotes.htm

Youth, Age, Stupidity

„Education is simply the act of gaining knowledge. Nothing to do with school.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

School, Knowledge

„I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling… and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ […] the child isRight from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?“

— Marilyn vos Savant US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer 1946

Children, School, Intelligence, Problem

„One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.“

— William Osler Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital 1849 - 1919

Source: Sir William Osler : Aphorisms (1961), p. 105.

„Worldview" is not based on books; it is an internal form, which at times in a person with little education is expressed much more brightly, than in some other "intellectual" or scientist.“

— Julius Evola Italian philosopher and esotericist 1898 - 1974

Books, Time, Personality

„This knotted dilemma lies at the center of women's development. How can girls both enter and stay outside of, be educated in and then try to change, what for millennia has been a man's world?“

— Carol Gilligan American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist 1936

Source: Joining the Resistance

Women, World, Girl, Change

„Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.“

— Christine de Pizan, book The Book of the City of Ladies

Source: The Book of the City of Ladies

Women, Men

„Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.“

— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC

Life, Children, Art, Cute

„If you are emotionally attached to your tribe, religion or political leaning to the point that truth and justice become secondary considerations, your education and exposure is useless. If you cannot reason beyond petty sentiments, you are a liability.“

— Chuba Okadigbo Nigerian politician 1941 - 2003

Source: Fani-Kayode urges Buhari to take Okadigbo’s advice, Ifreke Inyang, 23 October 2017, Daily Post, Nigeria, 18 April 2018 http://dailypost.ng/2017/10/23/fani-kayode-urges-buhari-take-okadigbos-advice/,

Truth, Religion, Justice

„The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.“

— Wangari Maathai Kenyan environmental and political activist 1940 - 2011

On her opposition to the construction of a skyscraper in Nairobi, Kenya, as quoted in the article Wangari Maathai:"You Strike The Woman ..." by Priscilla Sears in the quarterly In Context #28 (Spring 1991)

People, Food, Housing

„Teachers also say that teaching for learning how-to-learn-learn will consume a lot of time. It will be difficult to cover all the content specified by the curriculum if learning uses up too much time on hands-on activities. The less-is-more alternative has not been considered as a possible solution at all in educational reforms where only expanding will bring about progress and development is more. Now is an appropriate time for educators to come down to the heart of educational matters or the learning methods to achieve the less-is-more alternative in all educational reforms.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Teacher

Time, Heart, Learning, Teachers

„Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.“

— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961

Children, For Parents

„Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.“

— Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963

Variant: You are educated when you have the ability to hear almost anything without losing your temper, or your self-confidence.

Self-confidence, Confidence

„My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.“

— Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014

People, School, Intelligence, Understanding

„Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.“

— John Henrik Clarke American historian and writer 1915 - 1998

People

„The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its principles, to its class, to its revolutionary purpose, to its task of paving the way for revolution and educating the mass of the people for victory in the revolution.“

— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924

People, Way, Victory

„Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating… too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.“

— John Wooden American basketball coach 1910 - 2010

Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

Life, Forgetting

„The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best“

— A.S. Neill Scottish educator and theorist 1883 - 1973

Life, Thinking, Parent

„I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.“

— John Wayne American film actor 1907 - 1979

People, World, Thinking

„Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.“

— Pythagoras ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585 - -495 BC

As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists‎ (2007) by James Geary

Men, Children

„Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.“

— W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939

Light, Powerful, Teachers' Day, For Parents

„I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and our young, our women as well as our men.
I see nothing inconsistent between being proud of oneself and one's ancestors and, at the same time, seeing oneself first and foremost a member of the commonwealth of all races and creeds.“

— Arthur Ashe American tennis player 1943 - 1993

Source: Days of Grace: A Memoir (1994), p. 186

Love, Women, Men, God

„Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. I never had any formal education—not even a nursery school certificate. But sometimes I know more than Ph. D. s because as a military man I know how to act. I am a man of action.“

— Idi Amin third president of Uganda 1925 - 2003

Appears in Barbet Schroeder (1974), General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait.

People, School, Way, Thinking

„The only difference between "propaganda" and "education," really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.“

— Edward Bernays American public relations consultant, marketing pioneer 1891 - 1995

Source: Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923), p. 212

„The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.“

— Maria Montessori Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870 - 1952

Part II : How Language Calls to the Child, p. 121
The Absorbent Mind (1949)

„Our educational system is filled with the art of memorisation, how much you can recall in the exams hall, and nothing to do with the testing of our intelligence.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Intelligence, Art

„We must, at once re-educate the next generation not to fall prey to this lowly level of thinking. Thus, making them strong enough to survive the next episode of life.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Strong, Thinking, Life

„Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.“

— John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900

People

„I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.“

— Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Source: Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), p. 442.
Source: Computing machinery and intelligence

Thinking

„The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.“

— Frantz Fanon, book The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth

People, Decision

„What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.“

— Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Age, Idea, Indifference

„Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

Source: Rant

Dreams, Moms

„The Fascist, on the other hand, conceives philosophy as a philosophy of practice (”praxis”). That concept was the product of certain Marxist and Sorellian inspirations (many Fascists and the Duce, himself, received their first intellectual education in the school of Marx and Sorel)—as well as the influence of contemporary Italian idealistic doctrines from which Fascist mentality drew substance and achieved maturity.“

— Giovanni Gentile Italian neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher and politician 1875 - 1944

“The Philosophy of Fascism,” first published in English in the Spectator, November 1928, pp. 36-37. Reprinted in Origins and Doctrine of Fascism, A. James Gregor, translator and editor, Transaction Publishers (2003) p. 33

School

„The aim of a student’s life should be to overcome any illusions or prejudices he may have and to give up mean habits. He should, and it is his duty to, propagate education among his illiterate brothers and to consider the propagation of education as part of his own education. He ought to acquire knowledge for the sake of knowledge and he should not be unaware of the needs of life.“

— Zakir Hussain (politician) 3rd President of India 1897 - 1969

In his first school essay, while in Class VIII, expressing his ideas and ideals, in: p. 28.
Quest for Truth (1999)

Life, Knowledge, Parting

„The Russians are primitive folk. Besides, Bolshevism is something that stifles individualism and which is against my inner nature. Bolshevism is worse than National Socialism — in fact, it can't be compared to it. Bolshevism is against private property, and I am all in favor of private property. Bolshevism is barbaric and crude, and I am fully convinced that that atrocities committed by the Nazis, which incidentally I knew nothing about, were not nearly as great or as cruel as those committed by the Communists. I hate the Communists bitterly because I hate the system. The delusion that all men are equal is ridiculous. I feel that I am superior to most Russians, not only because I am a German but because my cultural and family background are superior. How ironic it is that crude Russian peasants who wear the uniforms of generals now sit in judgment on me. No matter how educated a Russian might be, he is still a barbaric Asiatic. Secondly, the Russian generals and the Russian government planned a war against Germany because we represented a threat to them ideologically. In the German state, I was the chief opponent of Communism. I admit freely and proudly that it was I who created the first concentration camps in order to put Communists in them. Did I ever tell you that funny story about how I sent to Spain a ship containing mainly bricks and stones, under which I put a single layer of ammunition which had been ordered by the Red government in Spain? The purpose of that ship was to supply the waning Red government with munitions. That was a good practical joke and I am proud of it because I wanted with all my heart to see Russian Communism in Spain defeated finally.“

— Hermann Göring German politician and military leader 1893 - 1946

To Leon Goldensohn (28 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)

Men, Hate, War, Family

„My boys may charge me with all they want. The main thing is, it helps them. They are not evil and no criminals. They are the products of total war, grown up on the streets of scattered towns without any education! The only thing [they] knew was to handle weapons for the Dream of [the] Reich. They were young people with a hot heart and the desire to win or to die, according to the word: right or wrong—my country!“

— Joachim Peiper SS officer 1915 - 1976

Letter to Willis Everett, July 4, 1946. Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 14, citing Everett Papers in note 5.

War, People, Dreams, Boy

„Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.“

— Magic Johnson American basketball player 1959

Then & Now: Magic Johnson http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/17/cnn25.tan.johnson/index.html

World, Sport, Help

„Education, in general, should not be limited to the acquisition of knowledge and preparation for a career or in common parlance, "to make a better living." We must think in terms of a "better life," not only for the individual, but also for society as a whole. The educational system must, therefore, pay more attention, indeed the main attention, to the building of character, with emphasis on moral and ethical values.“

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson Hasidic rabbi 1902 - 1994

Endorsement of President Jimmy Carter's Education Program - Feb. 7, 1979.

Life, Knowledge, Thinking

„Man is born egotistical, a result of the conditioning of nature. Nature fills us with instincts; it is education that fills us with virtues.“

— Fidel Castro former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba 1926 - 2016

University of Havana address (2005)
Context: Man is born egotistical, a result of the conditioning of nature. Nature fills us with instincts; it is education that fills us with virtues. Nature makes us do things instinctively; one of these is the instinct for survival which can lead to infamy, while on the other side, our conscience can lead us to great acts of heroism. It doesn’t matter what each one of us is like, how different we are from each other, but when we unite we become one.
It is amazing that in spite of the differences between human beings, they can become as one in a single instant or they can be millions, and they can be a million strong just through their ideas. Nobody followed the Revolution as a cult to anyone or because they felt personal sympathy with any one person. It is only by embracing certain values and ideas that an entire people can develop the same willingness to make sacrifices of any one of those who loyally and sincerely try to lead them toward their destiny.

Nature

„To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education.“

— Manly P. Hall Canadian writer and mystic 1901 - 1990

Quoted in the tribute of The Lost Symbol (2009) by Dan Brown
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)
Context: A nation with culture is blessed. To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education. The young are no longer invited to seek the hidden truths, dynamic and eternal, locked within the shapes and behavior of living beings.

Books, World

„That which the educator must seek is to be able to see the child as Jesus saw him.“

— Maria Montessori Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870 - 1952

The Secret of Childhood, p. 108.
Context: We have in ourselves tendencies that are not good and which flourish like weeds in a field. (Original sin). These tendencies are many; they fall into seven groups, known of old as the Seven deadly sins. All deadly sins tend to separate us from the child; for the child compared to us, is not only purer but has mysterious qualities, which we adults as a rule cannot perceive, but in which we must believe with faith, for Jesus spoke to them so clearly and insistently that all the Evangelists recorded His words: Unless ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall nor enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. That which the educator must seek is to be able to see the child as Jesus saw him. It is with this endeavour, thus defined and delimited, that we wish to deal.

„Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.“

— Abbie Hoffman American political and social activist 1936 - 1989

Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980), p. 64.
Context: My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Democracy

„The kind of education we are looking for, it is necessary that teachers have to walk through this learning process and then practise them later on in their teaching. Professionalism can be achieved by teachers if they practise learning in their teaching.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Teacher

Learning, Teachers

„The speedily changing world and the growth in business and industrial enterprises have led to greater demand of semi-skilled manpower, who need a higher level of education in order to perform their tasks at the adequate level. To keep up with the speedy change, the educational system can no longer take a passive role.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life

World, Business, Change

„The provision of education has to be congruent with the pace of the changing world. This era - the era of globalization where all sources of information can be accessed within a few seconds through Internet and World-Wide-Web linkages, we inevitably have to take a further step beyond literacy level.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life

World, Change

„Education is perceived as a crucial instrument for increasing productivity and income, skills, competency of human resources, and sustainable growth. In the end, education helps reduce social problems, and improves quality of life so that people can live equally with others in society.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life

People, Help, Problem, Life

„He had hardly had any pretence of the politicians. For him education was not confined to lecture halls and laboratories. Rather, it was an essential part of national survival. He always set his eyes on the objectives which are essential to the destiny of the nation.“

— Zakir Hussain (politician) 3rd President of India 1897 - 1969

Times of India in: p. 347.
About Zakir Hussain, Quest for Truth (1999)

Parting

„Sex education is the only subject that will arouse the mind without illuminating it.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Sex

„BEFORE YOU GET MARRIED
discuss bills, parenting styles, credit, debt, religion, how to deal with family, what beliefs will be instilled in your children, childhood traumas, sexual expectations, partner expectations, financial expectations, family health history, mental health history, bucket list, dream home, careers and education, political views and whatever else come to mind.
LOVE ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH!“

— Unknown author

Childhood, Home, History, Parent

„A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.“

— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919

As quoted in Art of Communicating Ideas (1952) by William Joseph Grace, p. 389
Disputed

School, Cars, Universe, Graduation

„Marriage can wait, education cannot.“

— Khaled Hosseini, book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Marriage, Waiting

„If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.“

— Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993

„My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.“

— Margaret Mead American anthropologist 1901 - 1978

School

„I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.“

— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977

As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) by Leslie Halliwell
Variant: I find TV very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

Books, Time, Reading, Funny

„The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.“

— John Taylor Gatto American teacher, book author 1935 - 2018

Source: A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling, Berkeley Hills Books (2000) p. 178

Truth

„Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.“

— Gustave Flaubert French writer (1821–1880) 1821 - 1880

Correspondence, Letters to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie
Variant: Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.
Context: Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live. (June 1857)

Children, Reading, Deep