Education Quotes

“Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.”

-- Diana Lopez

“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