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My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed that anything was possible with hard work, and they particularly stressed the importance of education. They instilled that same belief in my sister and me.
Sep 10, 2025
If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.
My parents always stressed the importance of education, working hard in school and learning as much as possible. They also encouraged me to value myself and believe in myself and do what I thought was right for me.
The importance of education plays a huge role.
As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
What did you ASK at school today?
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted.
My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models, and they would say, you should want to be like Miss Gardiner, you should want to be like Mr. Freeman, or be like your dad. Shun the people who don't value education.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private-school kids. I want them to behave well by example. I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the time when Buddha himself, 2,500 years ago, made the point about the importance of education, and the word "Buddha" also means enlighten[ed] or educated. So all the Buddhist countries, not only Japan and Korea and China and Hong Kong and Thailand but also even Burma and Sri Lanka, had a higher level of education.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
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.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.