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I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.
Sep 25, 2025
Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.
I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.
This new enemy seeks to destroy our freedom and impose its views. We value life; the terrorists ruthlessly destroy it. We value education; the terrorists do not believe women should be educated or should have health care, or should leave their homes. We value the right to speak our minds; for the terrorists, free expression can be grounds for execution. We respect people of all faiths and welcome the free practice of religion; our enemy wants to dictate how to think and how to worship even to their fellow Muslims.
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.
The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
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.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.
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.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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.