Education Quotes

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

Educate yourself, hold the people around you accountable, seek ways to help, and don’t sit on the sidelines.

Baddest bitch with a degree.

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it’s at the bottom. It’s the people who are in school systems that don’t educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

It’s powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

I just decided that I didn’t want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn’t active enough for me.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.