Quotes about Education
It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist, I would hope society would be equally interested in fundamental science.
- Donna Strickland
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A scholar's pen is more valuable than a warrior's sword.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Read when you can.Teach when you ought.Learn when you must.Apply when you should.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Understanding is important for studying, knowledge is important for teaching, and wisdom is important for living.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Learning is intelligence.Knowing is understanding.Practicing is wisdom.Teaching is virtue.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
He who teaches you how to tend a garden has given you more than he who has given you a hundred roses.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
- Brigham Young
Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.
- Sonia Sotomayor
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
- Booker T. Washington
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
- William Law
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
- Aung San Suu Kyi