Education Quotes
“You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.”
“May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.”
-- Joseph Lancaster
“The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.”
-- Sydney J. Harris
“In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.”
-- Richard Cobden
“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.”
-- Earl Warren
“I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.”
-- Vanessa Carlton
“I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.”
-- Haile Gebrselassie
“As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.”
-- William Godwin