Quotes about education

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

Plato

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.

Washington Irving

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Aurelius

The more education he gets the less apt he is to be a Democrat and if he is very highly educated he will see the apple sauce in both parties.

Will Rogers

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Woody Allen

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

Elbert Hubbard

I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there’s nothing miraculous about how I grew up, and I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.

Barack Obama

There are several things I think I would have done if I had the chance again. I would have been a little more patient about getting out into the world. I would have seen to it that I had a more formal education.

Frank Sinatra

Humanitys greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity, reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.

Bill Gates