Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.

… schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Americans today don’t know history—even the smart ones who went to Ivy League schools.

The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.

The establishment of a republican government without well-appointed and efficient means for the universal education of the people is the most rash and foolhardy experiment ever tried by man.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the ‘high school movement’ made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education

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.

We need education across the board on all fronts.

I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.

There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.