Education

Education Quotes

There is a time in every man's education when he 
arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;
that imitation is suicide; that he must take     
himself for better, for worse, as his portion;   
that though the wide universe is full of good, no
kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but    
through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground 
which is given to him to till.                   

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The function of education is to help you from    
childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself
all the time.                                    

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we 
need aid; foolish, we need reason.  All that we  
lack at birth, all that we need when we come to  
man's estate, is the gift of education           

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Apply yourself.  Get all the education you can,  
but then...do something.  Don't just stand there,
make it happen.                                  

- Lee Iacocca

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your
own feet, in your current job, industry,         
education, experience or interests.              

- Brian Tracy

The test and the use of man's education is that he
finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.      

- Jacques Martin Barzun

Poverty, race, ethnicity and immigration status  
are not in themselves determinative of student   
achievement. Demography is not destiny. The amount
of melanin in a student's skin, the home country 
of her antecedents, the amount of money in the   
family bank account, are not the inexorable      
determinants of academic success. The evidence   
introduced at trial demonstrates that these      
negative life experiences can be overcome by     
public schools with sufficient resources well    
deployed. It is the clear policy of the state, as
formulated by the Regents and S.E.D. [State      
Education Department], that all children can     
attain the substantive knowledge and master the  
skills expected of high school  graduates. The   
court finds that the city's at-risk children are 
capable of seizing the opportunity for a sound   
basic education if they are given sufficient     
resources.                                       

- Justice Leland DeGrasse

Supreme Court of the State of New York

If someone is going down the wrong road, he      
doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he 
needs is education to turn him around.           

- Jim Rohn

A good education is not so much one which prepares
a man to succeed in the world, as one which      
enables him to sustain a failure.                

- Bernard Iddings Bell

Chaplain, University of Chicago

Label on a child's Superman costume:  Wearing of 
this garment does not enable you to fly.         

- Unknown

The object of education is to prepare the young to
educate themselves throughout their lives.       

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

Education is what survives when what has been    
learnt has been forgotten.                       

- B. F. Skinner

Nothing in the world can take the place of       
persistence.  Talent will not; nothing is more   
common than unsuccessful men with talent.  Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. 
Education will not the world is full of educated 
derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are
omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and
always will solve the problems of the human race 

- Calvin Coolidge

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

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate leader of Burma's democracy movement

It has always seemed strange to me that in our   
endless discussions about education so little    
stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an    
educated person, the enormous interest it adds to
life. To be able to be caught up into the world of
thought--that is to be educated.                 

- Edith Hamilton