Quotes about Education
When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.
- Tina Fey
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
- Paulo Coelho
I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
- Maya Angelou
In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
- Malala Yousafzai
Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.
- Euripides
One must travel, to learn.
- Mark Twain
Those who trust us educate us.
- George Eliot
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
- Frederick Douglass
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
- Mahatma Gandhi
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
- William Osler
It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.
- William Osler
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.
- Edith Schaeffer