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

“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”

-- Plutarch

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

-- Aristotle

“I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.”

-- Bo Jackson

“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”

-- Thomas Sowell

“Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.”

-- Sargent Shriver

“It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.”

-- Desmond Tutu

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

-- Carl Rogers

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”

-- Gail Godwin

“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”

-- Alexander Pope