“When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.”
Education is about more than classrooms and diplomas. These quotes challenge conventional thinking about learning, teaching, curiosity, and what it actually means to be educated — which, as several of these thinkers point out, has little to do with memorization.
“Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.”
“When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.”
“The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.”
“The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.”
“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
“Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.”
“I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'”
“'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.”
“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.”
“Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.”
“Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.”
“If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.”
“But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.”
“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.”
“Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.”
“In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.”