Quotes about Education

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Education is not success but it is to help us succeed.

I discovered that success has very little to do with education or race or disposition; it has more to do with principles and following those principles.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her hands, so engrossed she would sometimes trip while navigating familiar streets.

Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers' rights, which he considered a privilege rather than a punishment. He was obligated to write ten pages, and handed in a tome of nearly fifty pages instead, duly footnoted, quoting from Thomas Paine and FDR. He couldn't wait for the next decade. Everything would change in the sixties, he told Franny. And, if they were lucky, they would then be free.

The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know.

The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble!... But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. And for keeping alive in me somehow the desire to know.

However, loving is nothing if it is not an education...