Education Quotes
“There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.”
“Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.”
-- Harry S. Truman
“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.”
-- David Rockefeller
“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead
“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”
-- Jean Piaget
“I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.”
-- Rutherford B. Hayes
“Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.”
-- Alice Miller