Quotes on “education”

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

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

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

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

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, I said. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.