Education Quotes

"There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature."

"Promote then as an object of primary importance institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge."

"I grew up like a neglected weed—ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."

"The first object of a woman should be to educate herself."

"The obstacles which prevent woman from obtaining a good education are many."

"I am a firm believer in the doctrine of education for all."

"The education of woman is the key to her emancipation."

"Education is the great equalizer. It opens doors that poverty cannot lock."

"A child's education is a reflection of a nation's character."

"Public education is the foundation upon which democracy rests."

"We must teach our children that freedom is not free; it is purchased with vigilance and sacrifice."

"A child denied education is a child denied a future."

"Education opens the prison doors of poverty and prejudice."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be."

"Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe."

"The cultivation of the mind is the most important pursuit."

"Knowledge is the pathway from slavery to freedom."

"Education and elevation go hand in hand."

"I am not educated in the ways of the schoolroom, but I am educated in the ways of life."

"Education is the great equalizer."

"Idleness, vice, and crime are the inevitable results of allowing people to remain ignorant."

"The South has never yet been asked to do its fair share in the education of the Negro."

"What is the use of education if it does not help us in some way to improve the world in which we live?"

"The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life."

"Training in human nature is the object of education."

"Ignorance is a cure for nothing."

"The very first thing we must put into the heads of our children is the idea of their personal power."

"The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man."

"I declare that woman has been the slave of man."

"I declare that woman must not depend upon the protection of man."