Education Quotes

“Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.”

-- Charles Kennedy

“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