Basic Education Quotes:

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

- Herbert Spencer

topic: Inspirational, Education, Learning, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Education

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Sad, Education, Intellectual Curiosity, Intelligence And Education

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Reading, Bridges, Misery, Complement, Modern Education

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.178, Rajpal & Sons

topic: Children, Moral Development, Intellectual, Handicrafts, Basic Education

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

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Literacy, Humans, Democratization, Education And Literacy, Basic Education

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

- Ezra Pound

source: ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8

topic: Education, Real, Learning, Primary Education, Children And Education

I want to give people a basic education, and to help them think for themselves when it comes to food.

- Wolfgang Puck

source: "An Interview With Master Chef, Wolfgang Puck". Interview with David Murphy, foodnservice.com. January 29, 2016.

topic: Thinking, People, Giving, Basic Education

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

- Koichiro Matsuura

topic: Educational, Challenges, Moral, Education For All, Basic Education

we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.

- Amartya Sen

topic: Educational, Fighting, Goes On, Education For All, Basic Education

In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in any kind of system, to say that the priorities don't include education is a mistake, whether it's [at the] domestic level or at the global level.

- Amartya Sen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Mistake, Priorities, Levels, Basic Education

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.178, Rajpal & Sons

topic: Education, Children, Cities, Basic Education

Betsy DeVos, for example, has shown that she’s flatly ignorant of an astounding amount of basic education policy. It might be possible to persuade two or three Republicans to oppose her on these grounds - but only if the entire confirmation process isn’t a pure partisan battle.

- Kevin Drum

source: "There’s a Good Reason Democrats Aren’t Opposing Every Trump Nominee Unanimously" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2017.

topic: Two, Ignorant, Battle, Basic Education

Everyone who comes in is just amazed that our children do not have the animosity, the hatred, because these children are into it. You know, once you learn to like yourself, then you don't see this black-white bit. I still say that a good basic education is the only thing. I feel guilty sometimes because I don't think Jesus Christ could get any more accolades than I do when I walk through that classroom, even from the children I do not teach. They know that I love them, but I am forever telling them, "Get into that seat so you can have choices in this world."

- Marva Collins

source: Source: reason.com

topic: Jesus, Children, Thinking, Basic Education, Animosity

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

- John Perkins

source: John Perkins (2004). “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: War, Iraq, Water, Military Spending, Sanitation