It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me. - Aravind Adiga
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. - Epictetus
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. - Robert Frost
Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world. - Amartya Sen
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. - William James
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. - Abraham Lincoln
If you educate a boy, you educate a person, but if you educate a girl, you educate a family and benefit an entire community. An entire community - now that is really interesting! Then I found the quote changed a little more on the Kingdom of Jordan website by her Royal Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan during her interview with Oprah Winfrey. Queen Rania relates the quote in these words: As you educate a woman, you educate the family. If you educate the girls, you educate the future. - Queen Rania
Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence. - Isaac Asimov
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies. - Narayana Murthy
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
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
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. - Dalai Lama
Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating. - Amartya Sen
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope or dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation. - John F. Kennedy
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. - Abraham Lincoln
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