Vivienne Westwood Quotes

Few things are as essential as education.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

Education made us what we are.

In the amenities of life our hoydenish young people are pitifully lacking. Nothing but discipline can give poise, firmness, self-confidence, steadiness, control; nothing can be more beneficial to the youth than to be taught promptness, self-mastery, erect carriage, alertness, cleanliness, obedience, respect, loyalty. Our practice of turning out our young people, raw, uncouth, penniless — into a competitive world to scramble fiercely for a living — cannot give them the real discipline in morals and manners which they need. Nothing can atone for this early lack.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Education is everything. It's for everyone. We all need to be educated.

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

We must bring it to pass ... if we have the peace that all the youth now in England, born of free men who have the means that they can apply to it, may be devoted to learning ... until such time as they can read well what is written in England.

Education is so important.

Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers.

Young men and women, your education is ever important - to us, to you, and to God.

Education is the key in so many ways.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

I learned that education and sport are the bedrock for any person, but education comes first, no doubt about it.

Education is equally important in one's life.

We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.

Education is such an important tool for success, and probably the most important one.

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 Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.