Quotes for Education

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

Derek Bok

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

Anita Brookner

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.

Sun Yat-sen

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.

Chinese Proverb

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Kofi Annan

Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.

Ann Cotton

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Michael Jackson

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Friedrich Schiller

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Horace Mann

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

John Dewey

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Pete Seeger

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Charles R. Swindoll

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

Solomon Ortiz

Inclusion and transparency have been mainstays of my leadership. It's about education and reaching out.

Gabrielle Carteris

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

George Santayana

Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

Kailash Satyarthi