Inspiring Education Quotes

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. ~ Chanakya

The whole object of education is ... to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. ~ Sherwood Anderson

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

It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity. ~ Thomas Huxley

The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's. ~ Hannah Woolley

Correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers - most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people - all the more insidious and insincere. ~ Azar Nafisi

Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers. ~ Benjamin Spock

Like a rose, life is charming and beautiful. By spreading fragrance, we make it meaningful. ~ Debasish Mridha

By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome. ~ Shawn Achor

Heaven or Hell has ALWAYS been a choice one makes, and has never been a place one goes. ~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

My work has been the education I avoided. ~ William Zinsser

Find the willpower to begin work. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else. ~ John Gresham Machen

Who should we trust to say what teaching is, and how does this play out in schools? How can we even begin to transform education policy or practice unless we all understand what teaching really means? ~ Vanessa Rodriguez

When we spend money we lose them forever, when we give them away, we will have them forever. ~ Debasish Mridha

Freedom and wealth is an outcome of "Time"; the most precious asset that we all possess.
Time however is a variable to each individual as our actions from our choices determine the longevity and returns from this asset.
To maximize the return on this asset is determined by the energy that we put forth in developing our financial education, relationships and health. ~ Scott Burton

I find it hard to understand why those who demand Unitary Education by the State do not also demand a Unitary Press by the State ... Either the State is infallible, in which case we could not do better than to submit to it the entire domain of intelligent thought, or it is not, in which case it is no more rational to hand over education to it than the press. ~ Frederic Bastiat

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them. ~ Lincoln Chafee

What is the best form of education? Isn't education which provided self-liberation and liberation of other individuals? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Don't react to any fuming argument. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her. ~ Iain Pears

Love everyone because everyone is your kin and this universe is your home. ~ Debasish Mridha

I can resist everything but love. ~ Debasish Mridha

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. ~ Harvey S. Firestone

First visualize your goal in your mind. Then have a leap of faith, and let your passion guide you throughout the process. ~ Abhijit Naskar

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly. ~ Eric Idle

The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind. ~ C. Robert Cargill

And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.' ~ Dick Gephardt

It is impossible now to estimate how much of the intellectual and physical energy of the world was wasted in military preparation and equipment, but it was an enormous proportion. Great Britain spent upon army and navy money and capacity, that directed into the channels of physical culture and education would have made the British the aristocracy of the world. Her rulers could have kept the whole population learning and exercising up to the age of eighteen and made a broad-chested and intelligent man of every Bert Smallways in the islands, had they given the resources they spent in war material to the making of men. Instead of which they waggled flags at him until he was fourteen, incited him to cheer, and then turned him out of school to begin that career of private enterprise we have compactly recorded. France achieved similar imbecilities; Germany was, if possible worse; Russia under the waste and stresses of militarism festered towards bankruptcy and decay. All Europe was producing big guns and countless swarms of little Smallways. ~ H.G. Wells

[ ... ] I could not go on for ever so: I want to enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those of other people. I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday. ~ Charlotte Bronte

Smile as if you are an angel from heaven. ~ Debasish Mridha

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education. ~ Bill Gates

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question. ~ Orison Swett Marden