Education Quotes

In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

There should be a class on sex education, a real sex-education class. There should be a class on police brutality. There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry. But there are not. There are classes on gym. Physical education. Let's learn volleyball.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads - is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

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

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Education is the path to revelation. Teach the alphabet and you sow the seeds of rebellion. The free thinker travels light along the road to truth.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young.

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.