Impact of Education Quotes

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.

Education deserves particular focus because its effects are so long-lasting.

'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.

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

The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.