Education Quotes

“We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.”

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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