Education is a vaccine for violence.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.
It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.
I am a teacher. . . The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom. . . there await me a group of intelligent and curious young. . . [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that. . . education is mankind's most important enterprise.
What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Education is the number one priority.
Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire. "
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
. . . the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.
In part, it's almost surely a failure of modern education, whether K through 12 or higher education, or really both. Barack Obama went to Ivy League institutions like Columbia, which are reputed to be among America's top colleges. And yet, this very recent product of those American institutions is not publicly articulating an appreciation of the American founding or the founders and their vision for America.
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow. " Their name is today.