Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.

...knowledge is the cause of human progress.

To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.

Abdul Kalam

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Abdul Kalam

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

When this opportunity was presented to me, it was just the perfect combination of taking my 30-plus years of experience and reconnecting to the heart and soul of public education the students, parents and teachers.

Abraham Lincoln

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

Abraham Lincoln

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Abraham Lincoln

Every head should be cultivated.

Abraham Lincoln

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

Abraham Lincoln

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

Jeff Bezos

If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.

Jim Jeffords

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

Bruno Bettelheim

Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to "real" people and everyday events--knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings.

Brewster Kahle

This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Hershey

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

Barbara Johnson

Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?

Barbara Jordan

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Barbara Kingsolver

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.

Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City....

Augustine Birrell

Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

Less than 1 percent of the prairie grass region remains unplowed, and this is one piece of that. So, not only is it important for the university to save it for education and research, but also so it can be a good, productive member of society.

Many corporations are starting to embed financial education for their employees.

She used to be a catechism teacher in Mexico and was really involved in organizing masses. Mom still keeps up with her education in Richmond at the diocese.

She will hold three meetings at the Legion hall and get some education from the public about what they think they might want or need in the form of senior housing. It is an opportunity for the public to learn what is happening and to speak their piece.