Education Quotes
“There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.”
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”
-- Kofi Annan
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt
“Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.”
-- Roger Bannister
“Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.”
-- Joel Coen
“So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.”
-- Phil Lesh