Quotes about education

I’ve learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

Mary J. Blige

I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

Barack Obama

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

Leo Tolstoy

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

Bill Cosby

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato

One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

Barack Obama

Politically, I don’t care what party you’re from, offer a point of view and let’s see what happens and really debate the issues rather than use personal attacks. Really talk about it, talk about immigration, talk about education, talk about pollution.

Robin Williams

The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it’s not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can’t teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It’s terrible.

Steve Jobs

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Jean de La Bruyere