Quotes about Education

I guess this is because they teach me, and I teach the children and there's no beginning or end to teaching and learning and working—it all runs together.

hadn't realized I was so ignorant, Celie. The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble! And to think Miss Beasley always said I was the smartest child she ever taught! But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. And for keeping alive in me somehow the desire to know.

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

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

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.

A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that's what she wants to do.