education Quotes

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

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

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

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