Quotes about Education

But I wanted someone who was more than just intelligent and educated. I was searching for an expert who wouldn't gloss over nuances or blithely dismiss challenges to the records of Christianity

Godly teachers encourage questions; those who demand unthinking agreement have something to hide.

Puritan leaders, at least, valued an educated mind over material riches. Cotton Mather admonished his congregation with the comment, "If your main concern be to get the riches of this world for your children, and leave a belly full of this world unto them, it looks very suspiciously as if you were yourselves the people of this world, whose portion is only in this life."30

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. —MARGARET MEAD

You were not created to be subservient; you are a joint heir. Women are God-answers. The addition of women's voices increases the educational opportunity for all children, stimulates the economy, and apparently decreases the risk of terrorism

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.