Education Quotes

“A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.”

-- Allen West

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.”

-- Horace Mann

“The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.”

-- Sam Houston

“Education is the transmission of civilization.”

-- Will Durant

“Education is all a matter of building bridges.”

-- Ralph Ellison

“Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.”

-- Ernie Fletcher

“Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.”

-- Desmond Tutu

“It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.”

-- Clyde Tombaugh

“For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.”

-- Plato

“The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.”

-- John Ruskin