Quotes about education

„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

„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

„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

„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

„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

„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

„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

„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

„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

„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

„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

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Education for Peace

„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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„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

„The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of various authors, but in opening up their understanding to the outer world, so that a living stream may flow from their own minds, just as leaves, flowers, and fruit spring from the bud on a tree.“

—  John Amos Comenius Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer 1592 - 1670

„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/,

„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.

„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

„It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.“

—  Lemmy Kilmister British singer-songwriter 1945 - 2015

„Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.“

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

"Teaching and Thinking" in The Montreal Medical Journal (1895).