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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
― W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois
Education
Wall
School
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
― Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Inspirational
Inspiring
Education
If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.
― Urie Bronfenbrenner
Education
Children
Opportunity
Urie Bronfenbrenner
We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.
― Urie Bronfenbrenner
Education
Children
Organization
Urie Bronfenbrenner
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Education
Years
People
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Education
Dark
Mind
Good is not good, where better is expected
― Thomas Fuller
Inspirational
Education
Motivation
Thomas Fuller
I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
― Susan B. Anthony
Education
War
Cry
Susan B. Anthony
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
― Thomas Carlyle
Education
Mistake
Learning
Thomas Carlyle
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
― Thomas Carlyle
Life
Education
Thomas Carlyle
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
― Theodore Roosevelt
Education
Theodore Roosevelt
There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.
― Shakira
Education
Watches
Kind
Shakira
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Purpose
Education
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
― Abraham Lincoln
Motivational
Education
Philosophy
Abraham Lincoln
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
― Bertrand Russell
Education
Confidence
Wisdom
Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
― Bertrand Russell
Education
Stupid
School
Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
― Bertrand Russell
Education
Truth
Religion
Bertrand Russell
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
― Bertrand Russell
Education
Children
Teaching
Bertrand Russell
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