Quotes about education

Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It’s much easier than roads and a great education system. It’s very basic. It’s one of the first things you want to get right.

Bill Gates

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Barack Obama

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

Malcolm X

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

Winston Churchill

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers’ money.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

Buckminster Fuller

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.

Nelson Mandela

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Plato

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain