Quotes about Education

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges, let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs, let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

By the way, do you notice that uneducated people find it very difficult to decide things objectively, and that they allow some more or less fortuitous minor circumstance to turn the scales?

'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.