Quotes about Education

You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't make that mistake again.

Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.

I remember a television program I once saw; a rerun, made years before. I must have been seven or eight, too young to understand it. It was the sort of thing my mother liked to watch: historical, educational. She tried to explain it to me afterwards, to tell me that the things in it had really happened, but to me it was only a story. I thought someone had made it up. I suppose all children think that, about any history before their own. If it's only a story, it becomes less frightening.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

Florida's not the hick town you keep saying it is," says Reynolds. "Times have changed; they've got good universities now and a great book festival! Thousands of people come to it!

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Every girl deserves to take part in creating the technology that will change our world and change who runs it.

If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.