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Education is the bedrock of social and economic development. Throughout history, philosophers like Aristotle and Plato recognized the importance of education. Use these famous education quotes to inspire others to follow the path of knowledge. It is only through education that we can hope to eradicate social evils. “Do a little more than you’re paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.” – Art Linkletter. “We grow great by dreams.” – Woodrow Wilson. Top 10 Education Quotes - with quotes by Nelson Mandela, Aristotle, Diogenes, Malcolm Forbes and more.

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The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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- Leonard Ravenhill

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- Martin Luther

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They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
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The truest view of life has always seemed to me to be that which shows that we are here not to enjoy, but to learn.
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When one considers our nation's educational foundations -- Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian -- it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture.
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It is so important that our churches, our Christian schools and we, as individuals, do not allow non-Christian influences to influence our beliefs.
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- Thomas Aquinas

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education. Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

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Want to know why American students' SAT scores are falling? We've kicked the light of the world out of the classroom.
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When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

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Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.
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Men are more inclined to ask curious questions, than to obtain necessary instruction.
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Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and speculation is inferior to that which is useful; and of all useful knowledge that is the most so which consists in a due care and just notion of ourselves.
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It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
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Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

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I've graduated from three universities, and I can tell you that some of the dumbest people on earth are hiding out there.

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A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
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We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.
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It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.

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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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God's corrections are our instructions; His lashes our lessons, and His scourges our schoolmasters.
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
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He has seen but little of life who does not discern everywhere the effect of early education on men's opinions and habits of thinking. Children bring out of the nursery that which displays itself throughout their lives.
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character. That which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

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- George Herbert

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that ensures your growth.
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A good schoolmaster minces his precepts for children to swallow, hanging clogs on the nimbleness of his own soul, that his scholars may go along with him.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

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Solitude is a good school, but the world is the best theatre; the institution is best there, but the practice here; the wilderness hath the advantage of discipline, and society opportunities of perfection.
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- Helen Keller

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I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
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Life is but one continual course of instruction, The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.
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Aversion from reproof is not wise. It is a mark of a little mind. A great man can afford to lose; a little, insignificant fellow is afraid of being snuffed out.

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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
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Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered Exultation is rooted in God-centered Education.

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Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

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- Thomas Fuller

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- Helen Keller

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Nelson Mandela was a man who carried varied and numerous titles throughout his life. He was, among other things, a revolutionary, nonviolence anti-apartheid activist, philanthropist, human rights activist, the first black president of South Africa and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. He even went through 27 years in prison for his efforts to bring harmony and equality to South Africa. One of his great legacies was his contributions to education.

Nelson Mandela Quotes about Education

Mandela recognized education as a great vehicle to bring equality of opportunity to the world. Here are nine Nelson Mandela quotes about education:

  • “I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.”
  • “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
  • “The power of education extends beyond the development of skills we need for economic success. It can contribute to nation-building and reconciliation.”
  • “A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
  • “Young people must take it upon themselves to ensure that they receive the highest education possible so that they can represent us well in future as future leaders.”
  • “Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savour their songs.”
  • “No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.”
  • “Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mine worker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”
  • “It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education. Those who do not believe this have small imaginations.”

The man’s inspiring life story has touched even more people’s lives than his quotes about education. The many funds and foundations he established during his lifetime continue to help and advocate for the causes he cared about; such causes include the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, The Nelson Mandela Foundation and The Mandela Rhodes Foundation.

Institute for Education and Rural Development

As for the education sector, in particular, The Nelson Mandela Institute for Education and Rural Development provides education for rural children in South Africa that encounter educational barriers such as collapsing classrooms, leaking roofs, shortages of desks and shortages of teachers.

The institute creates tools and methods to develop teacher training systems, works with the community, refurbishes classrooms and helps students develop their language skills as well as their confidence.

The Gift of Education

The gift of education is indeed something to be celebrated. To work towards Mandela’s honorable vision of a free and equal society, the world will require the knowledge, resources and insight that education brings. The Nelson Mandela quotes about education featured above express why education is so important.

Education is an investment essential to empowering individuals to reach their full potential and to make their own positive impact on the world.

– Connie Loo

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