Value Of Education Quotes:

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

- Ruth Simmons

topic: Worthwhile, Value Of Education, Values, Good Living

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

- Frederick Douglass

source: Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.354, Hackett Publishing

topic: Value Of Education, Knows, Values

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

- B. C. Forbes

source: B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.7, Lulu.com

topic: Wisdom, Knowledge, Men, Value Of Education

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Social Power, Social Studies

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Education, Character, Goal, Good Character, Inspirational Character

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

- William Ralph Inge

source: Education (1917) ch. 2

topic: Education, Knowledge, Facts, Knowledge Of The World, What Is Education

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

- Aristotle

topic: Faith, Education, Art, Classical Education, Education For All

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Education, Travel, Math Education, Math Teacher

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

- George Washington Carver

topic: Education, Freedom, Teaching, Knowledge Education, Inspiring Education

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Decision, Analysis, Investing, Best Investment, Good Money

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

- Alvin Toffler

source: "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Futurist, Learning To Read

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Life, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational School

Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, against the lack and loss of animal delights. How essential it is, then, in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

- William Lyon Phelps

source: "A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More".

topic: Wall, Real, Lying, Value Of Education, Real Value

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

- B. B. King

source: "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Learning To Read, Inspirational Education

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.

topic: Funny, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Learning

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

- James A. Garfield

source: Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

topic: Education, Teacher, Teaching, Knowledge Education, Education And Freedom

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

- John Dewey

topic: Life, Inspiring, Education, Unschooling, Inspirational Education

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

- Brad Sherman

topic: Appreciation, Children, Want, Value Of Education

We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

- Roger Scruton

topic: Education, Mean, Priorities, Value Of Education, Useless Knowledge

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

source: Attributed; no source found

topic: Education, People, Impossible, Teacher Student, Student Learning

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.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Motivational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Student

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Education, Country, School, Value Of Education

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Education, Emotional, Intelligence, Inspirational Educational, Great Education

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Education, Inspirational Educational, Spiritual Education

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Education, Keep An Open Mind

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

- Abigail Adams

topic: Education, Learning, School, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Inspiring, Education, Art, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Education, Goal, Individual, Education System, Education Today

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

- Edward Everett

source: "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

topic: Education, Freedom, War, Student Learning, First Day Of School

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Learning, Ideas, Mind, Children Education, Value Of Education

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation, Inspirational Learning, Inspiring Education

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

- Sydney J. Harris

source: Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

topic: Graduation, Education, Wall, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Graduation

The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.

- Edward Bernays

topic: Real, Democracy, Attention, Cognizant, Value Of Education

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

- B. F. Skinner

source: New Scientist 21 May 1964

topic: Graduation, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Inspirational Graduation

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

- John Lubbock

topic: Education, Appreciation, Teacher, Inspirational Educational, Knowledge Education

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

- Robert Frost

topic: Inspirational, Education, Patience, Learning To Read, Bad Temper

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Men, People, Ignorant, Informed Citizens, Justice Truth

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

- Nikki Giovanni

topic: Education, School, Educational Change, Value Of Education

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Education, School, Years, Public Education, Education Today

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Students And Education, Wonderful Teacher

Education is the best provision for old age.

- Aristotle

topic: Graduation, Education, Teaching, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Graduation

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Education, Clever, Live Life, Very Clever, Lecturer

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Education, Men, Purses, Knowledge Education, Knowledge Learning

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

- Aristotle

topic: Graduation, Education, Sweet, Inspirational Education, Memorable Graduation

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

- David O. McKay

source: "Mormon Parenting Secrets: Time-Tested Methods for Raising Exceptional Children". Book by Flint Stephens (p. 20), September 30, 2011.

topic: Children, Life Lesson, Teaching, Honest Work, Homeschooling

I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.

- Jamie Moyer

topic: College, Effort, Realizing, Value Of Education