Quotes about Education

Jim Rohn said, "If you read one book every month about your industry, in ten years you'll have read 120 books. That will put you in the top one percent of your field.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

I am not willing that this discussion should close without mention of the value of a true teacher. Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Behind Caroline was her schoolroom full of bright, eager students. God had given them to her as a gift, to show her that the sacrifices she'd made did have meaning. His purposes for her life would be partly fulfilled in them, and in those children's futures.

I don't remember a single classroom lesson she taught, but I very clearly remember the way she made me feel.

But at the heart of it all we must take our noses out of textbooks and delve into the Book to gain God's perspective of raising and educating a child. We must become more concerned with their souls than their brains. A child's smarts can help them go places in life, but the character reflected from their soul is what will determine whether or not they do anything significant once they get there.