Education Quotes

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Education is basically downloading data and algorithms into your brain.

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I've done, I've had tremendous success. I think I've done a lot. ... I think they're sacrifices. I think when I can employ thousands and thousands of people, take care of their education, take care of so many things, even in military. I mean, I was very responsible, along with a group of people, for getting the Vietnam Memorial built in downtown Manhattan, which to this day people thank me for.

For too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our Nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

You're the greatest cutter. I need an Elon Musk - I need somebody that has a lot of strength and courage and smarts. I want to close up the Department of Education, move education back to the states.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

The real education of the masses can never be separated from their independent political, and especially revolutionary, struggle. Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.

India has probably lost its position to China as the world's workshop. At the same time it has the power to be ahead of China when it comes to knowledge. Not that the Chinese are far behind. They will get there. But our challenge is to invest sufficiently in education.

I have a strong belief in the importance of education.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.