Education Quotes

“We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.”

-- Donna Shalala

“Education is a precondition to survival in America today.”

-- Marian Wright Edelman

“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”

-- Charles Caleb Colton

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

-- Malcolm X

“We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.”

-- Carol Moseley Braun

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

-- Calvin Coolidge

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

-- Malcolm Forbes

“You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.”

-- Drew Brees

“Education is not so important as people think.”

-- Elizabeth Bowen

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

-- Aristotle