Quotes about Education
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
- John Milton
I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.
- Barack Obama
I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.
- Muhammad Ali
I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.
- Ricky Gervais
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.
- John Wesley
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
- Brigham Young
See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.
- Brigham Young