Education Quotes

"Education is the most powerful tool we have for changing the world, yet it is also the most heavily controlled."

"The school system as it stands is a monument to bureaucratic inefficiency."

"The student who has been exposed to only one view has not been exposed to an education."

"Education should be about expanding horizons, not narrowing them to what is politically acceptable."

"Education is the most important investment a society can make."

"The best use of capital is to invest in human development."

"Most people are not capable of thinking in abstractions; they need concrete examples."

"Education should teach people how to think, not what to think."

"Learning is often corrupted when converted into a commodity for sale."

"The higher learning has become subordinate to commercial and political interests."

"The university has been transformed from a seat of learning into a vocational school."

"Education shaped by commercial interests produces narrow rather than cultivated minds."

"Education is the most powerful tool for changing the world."

"The best way to learn is by doing."

"Stay curious and ask questions."

"Your education never ends."

"Keep learning until you die."

"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."

"The promise that every piece of knowledge can be had by a sort of intellectual pickling and then served up hot to every age, is a promise that cannot be fulfilled."

"Academic freedom is essential to intellectual progress."

"Education is not the filling of pails but the lighting of fires."

"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake is the highest calling of the intellectual."

"Education is the most profitable investment a nation can make."

"The correlation between education and income is the story of modern progress."

"The greatest barrier to prosperity is not competition but ignorance."

"The improvement of the lower classes is impossible without a change in their moral character."

"The improvement of education is one of the most effective means of removing the evils of poverty."

"Every generation must learn anew the principles of virtue and prudence."

"The true source of social progress is the moral and intellectual development of the people."

"Education is the foundation upon which all progress is built."