Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile....

Malcolm X

Education is our passport to the future.

Malcolm X

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

Malcolm X

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

Malcolm X

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Malcolm X

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

Mahatma Gandhi

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

Mahatma Gandhi

In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

Mahatma Gandhi

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

Mahatma Gandhi

A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

Mahatma Gandhi

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

Mahatma Gandhi

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

Literacy in itself is no education.

Mahatma Gandhi

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

Mahatma Gandhi

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Mahatma Gandhi

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

John Abbott

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

John Adams

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

John Adams

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.

John Adams

In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.

John Adams

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

John Adams

But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.

George Carlin

There's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got.. because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now.. the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners.

Garth Nix

Bee stings are very educational

Frederick Douglass

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Frank Smith

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.