Timothy Thomas Fortune Quotes

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.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

What is the purpose of education if not, at a minimum, to prepare people for work?

A good education alters the judgment and manners…

If we educate our kids well, they will be more competitive.

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

The basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge

A good education prepares you well for anything.

The education is the answer to everything, really, and on so many different levels. The minutiae of life require analytical skills that you learn in being educated, an ability to navigate the very systems that constitute life. They all require some degree of education, and if you don't get it, you're at a real disadvantage.

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.