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 period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.”
“The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.”
“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.”
“No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.”
“There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.”
“I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.”
“There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.”
“My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.”
“Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.”
“'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
“In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.”
“The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.”
“Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.”
“The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.”
“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.”