Education Quotes

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

"Education is the base of any nation's development"

"You must educate yourself to survive mentally"

"I wanted to go to school and that school was closed down because of integration."

"I learned that education is power."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire in the minds of our young people."

"The segregation of schools is as evil as segregation anywhere else."

"Desegregation of schools should be one of the easiest things to do. But pride makes it one of the hardest."

"Education is the tool by which we can build a better nation."

"I believe in the power of education to transform lives and nations."

"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave."

"Education, else despotism."

"Learning makes man fit for any station in life."

"Learning to live together is what we must do to survive."

"I would like young people to understand the value of freedom."

"Education must not simply teach work—it must teach life."

"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."

"The object of education is to make you useful to the world."

"Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is the most fundamental."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"The proper education of a child recognizes the whole child—mind, body, and spirit."

"Education is the pathway to freedom and self-determination."

"I declare women ought to be persons in the eyes of the law."

"I declare women ought to be educated for their own sake, not just to serve others."

"I declare women must have the right to an education equal to men's."

"Poverty and ignorance are the two greatest enemies of mankind."

"The time when one's education is finished is often when one's real education begins."

"My early troubles were not the result of my color but of my lack of education and training."

"Tuskegee Institute was founded to provide practical and industrial education to colored youth."

"In acquiring knowledge of facts, the student should be taught to think and to reason, not merely to memorize."