Education Quotes

"Industry and commerce are the true educators of modern times."

"The mind develops through engagement with material reality."

"Education liberates or it serves domination, there is no neutral middle ground."

"Reading and writing are the two fountains from which all erudition flows."

"Every man has two educations: the education which he receives from the world, and the education which he gives himself."

"To perfect one's character is the goal of all education."

"The foundation of any free society is the education of its people."

"The education of the working class is the secret weapon of their emancipation."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"All men are intellectuals, but not all men have the function of intellectuals in society."

"The study of philosophy is not separate from the study of history and politics."

"The organic intellectual must rise from the working class itself, not be imposed from above."

"The masses must be educated to become the architects of their own liberation."

"The principle should be to extend the suffrage very widely, to educate those who may be called upon to use it."

"Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers and physicians."

"There is no greater or truer gift that a person can give to the world than a good education."

"The true interest of popular government requires that the great body of the people should possess knowledge."

"Mankind is more susceptible to improvement by precept and precept than by punishment."

"The cultivation of the understanding and the enlargement of the imagination is the chief object of a good education."

"The spread of education is the most effective weapon against the advance of fanaticism and superstition."

"A wise government does not fear the advancement of knowledge among its people."

"A nation's future is determined by the education it provides."

"Youth must learn to question everything, for blind acceptance is the enemy of progress."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"Art and science cannot exist but in pleasantly cultivated minds."

"Learning is the only thing for you."

"The lovers of learning do not love learning for its own sake."

"The starting point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is."

"The masses have a profound capacity for understanding their own conditions."

"Education must teach people not what to think but how to think."