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Education is the bedrock of social and economical development of a nation. Education plays a big role in the development of the personality and character of a child. Throughout the evolution of mankind, philosophers and social reformers have realized and highlighted the importance of education. It is evident and have been proved in the past for many times that only through proper education, it can be possible to eradicate all social evils. Read these famous education quotes and inspire others about the power of knowledge and education.

Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.

Life People
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Jill Biden

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

Kindness
Jill Biden
Thomas Jefferson

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

People Sermon Groundwork Security
Thomas Jefferson
Dianne Feinstein

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

School Learning
Dianne Feinstein
Angela Merkel

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

Angela Merkel

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.

Teachers
Thora Birch
William Morris

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Art Freedom
William Morris
Will Rogers

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers
Bill Clinton

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

Information
Bill Clinton
Edinson Cavani

In Uruguay, there is a football pitch every hundred metres, whether it is made by grass, small stones, or sand. This has been my football education.

Football
Edinson Cavani
Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Investment Knowledge
Benjamin Franklin
William Butler Yeats

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats
Horace Mann

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Greatness
Horace Mann
Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Soul
Joseph Addison

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

Good Opportunities Growth
Bill Clinton
Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Change World
Nelson Mandela

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

Good History
Samuel L. Jackson
Steve Irwin

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Excitement
Steve Irwin
Michael Caine

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Wisdom Heart
Michael Caine
David Graeber

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

Future
David Graeber
James Baldwin

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Paradox Society
James Baldwin
Mark Twain

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Mark Twain
George Washington Carver

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Freedom
George Washington Carver

To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.

Value
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Michael Jackson

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Work World
Michael Jackson
Lyndon B. Johnson

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Men Opportunities Justice
Lyndon B. Johnson
Joseph Stalin

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Weapons
Joseph Stalin
Michelle Obama

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Truth Health
Michelle Obama
Selena

Music is not a very stable business. It comes and it goes, and so does money, but your education stays with you for the rest of your life. When you have that education, and you have nothing to fall back on, you can get a get a job anywhere.

Life Business
Selena
Malala Yousafzai

All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

Malala Yousafzai
Barack Obama

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Best Money People
Barack Obama
Jill Biden

We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.

Jill Biden
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Democracy
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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.

Country Women Health
Sachin Tendulkar
Thomas More

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

Appreciation Possible Discovery Training
Thomas More
Gavin Newsom

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

Children
Gavin Newsom
Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Mind
Aristotle
Malala Yousafzai

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

School Home
Malala Yousafzai
Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Nothing Time
Oscar Wilde
Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Prison School
Victor Hugo
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Society Soul
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Anatole France

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Encouragement
Anatole France
Kamala Harris

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

Kamala Harris
Sandra Day O'Connor

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

Nation
Sandra Day O'Connor
Leonardo da Vinci

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Leonardo da Vinci
Jameela Jamil

Sometimes life limits your choices - rising tuition costs may put university out of reach, or like me, personal circumstances might simply make it difficult to complete your education.

Life
Jameela Jamil

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

World Lonliness
Calvin Coolidge
Tony Blair

Education is the best economic policy there is.

Tony Blair
Bertrand Russell

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Stupidity
Bertrand Russell
Chanakya

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Youth Beauty
Chanakya
Horace Mann

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Safety
Horace Mann
Malcolm X

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

Meaningful Accountability Groundwork Comparisons
Malcolm X
Mitt Romney

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

Future
Mitt Romney
Andrew Cuomo

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Battles
Andrew Cuomo
Jenny McCarthy

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

Government
Jenny McCarthy
Pranab Mukherjee

As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

Age Past Future
Pranab Mukherjee
Noam Chomsky

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Positivity Society Internet
Noam Chomsky
George Miller

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

Children
George Miller

Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.

World
Quincy Jones
Robert Frost

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Losing
Robert Frost
Anatole France

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Memory
Anatole France
Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Society Equality
Sonia Sotomayor
Priyanka Chopra

Education has always been very important to me. It means you don't have to depend on anyone else.

Priyanka Chopra
Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Sweet
Aristotle
Walter Scott

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Men Self Confidence Worth Knowledge
Walter Scott
Leo Buscaglia

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Learning Change
Leo Buscaglia
John Mason Brown

The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.

Advice Goals Mind
John Mason Brown
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

Life Society Health
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Clarence Thomas

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Best Good
Clarence Thomas
Theodore Roosevelt

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Bible College Comparisons Wisdom
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas More

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

Life Busy Sanity Emotions
Thomas More
Thomas Merton

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Politics Socialism Hell History
Thomas Merton
Horace Mann

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Horace Mann
Theodore Roosevelt

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Sports Commitment Concentration Determination
Theodore Roosevelt

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

People Poverty
Jennifer Garner
Rabindranath Tagore

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Information Synchronization Life
Rabindranath Tagore
Matt LeBlanc

'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.

Comedy
Matt LeBlanc
Kristin Kreuk

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

Kristin Kreuk
Plato

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Life
Plato
Isaac Asimov

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Isaac Asimov
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.

Religion Reason Truth God
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Epictetus

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus
Wilson Mizner

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Faith Respect
Wilson Mizner
Melania Trump

You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.

Best Society
Melania Trump
Alexander Hamilton

Learn to think continentally.

Alexander Hamilton
Sandra Day O'Connor

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Good Principles Children
Sandra Day O'Connor

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

Music Art
Jennifer Garner

My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.

Life
Mila Kunis

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

Liam Neeson
Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Tolerance
Helen Keller
PewDiePie

Dropping the news to my parents that I was skipping my 'dream education' at Chalmers to sit at home recording videos while playing video games was not easy.

News Home Parents
PewDiePie
Michelle Pfeiffer

The value of a good education has never left me.

Good Value
Michelle Pfeiffer
Arthur Ashe

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Power Women Love
Arthur Ashe
Jill Biden

People need to realize that community colleges really give you a good education. And they do - that's just a simple fact of it.

Good
Jill Biden
Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Government
Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

School Learning
Albert Einstein
Scottie Pippen

I wasn't really that interested in playing. I had gone through some hard times not playing in high school, but my coach had it in his mind that basketball was the way I would get an education.

School Mind
Scottie Pippen
Steve Irwin

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.

Steve Irwin
Pele

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

People
Pele
Malala Yousafzai

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

School Parents Children
Malala Yousafzai