Education Quotes
“My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.”
“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.”
-- W. E. B. Du Bois
“We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.”
-- Arthur Ashe
“I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.”
-- Jack White
“And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.”
-- Sam Donaldson
“As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.”
-- Ed Pastor