Education Quotes
“If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.”
“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
-- John Ruskin
“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?”
-- Maria Montessori
“As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.”
-- will.i.am
“There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.”
-- Anne Campbell
“During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.”
-- Jonathan Kozol
“The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.”
-- Liberty Hyde Bailey