Education Quotes

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.

Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn’t plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

The objective of education should be impressed on the children’s minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the ‘educated’ person.

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.