Quotes about education

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Bertrand Russell

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education…. From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

John F. Kennedy

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

H. G. Wells

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

Adam Smith

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our parents treated all three of us – two sisters and a brother – equally. When it came to education, or our future plans, there was no discrimination between us based on our gender.

Chanda Kochhar

Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.

Robert Kiyosaki

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

Nelson Mandela

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

Mahatma Gandhi