Quotes about Education

You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

Let the good people teach people how to be rich.

It was necessary to keep our religious masters at St. Michael's unacquainted with the fact, that, instead of spending the Sabbath in wrestling, boxing, and drinking whisky, we were trying to learn how to read the will of God; for they had much rather see us engaged in those degrading sports, than to see us behaving like intellectual, moral, and accountable beings.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free.

Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

As I writhed under it, I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out. In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity.