Education Quotes

“I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.”

-- Cate Blanchett

“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