The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing.
In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.
The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only teachers who are avid, internally motivated learners can truly teach their students the joy of learning.
A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts. . . it is to teach them to think.
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.
Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.
Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.
The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.
