“My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.”
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.
“The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.”
“My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”
“When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.”
“Your library is your paradise.”
“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.”
“For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.”
“Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.”
“Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.”
“Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”
“I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.”
“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”
“What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.”
“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.”
“Segregation has no place in the education system.”