Nelson Mandela Quotes

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Remember, our focus should remain on development because it is development alone that can transform this nation as well as the lives of its people.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned

A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

We've made progress in our country, and it's been the Constitution that permitted that to happen.

If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.

There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.

If we provide employment to people, if we ensure there's food on their plates, if we provide them with facilities and give them education, all the tension will end. And this is why, all those who want good for the nation, I request them to compete towards development and for development. This atmosphere should be created in India and I think such an environment is being created nowadays.

The nation which is satisfied is lost. The nation which is not progressive is retrograding.

Go ask Virginia— go ask even noble Maryland ... to show you her people, canals, railroads, universities, schools, charities, commerce cities, and cultivated areas.

Through work, education, and culture, I will give hope to our country.

Three components - education, equality and empowerment - play an important and pivotal role in moving the country forward in every aspect.

Youth is always the future of any country.

It means food on every table, every child in school, a job for everybody and a house with toilet and electricity for every family. This will make India proud. We can achieve this through unity. Unity strengthens us. Division weakens us.

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.

The future of our country is not found in our boardrooms, but in our classrooms.

I dreamt of a country where education would prevail.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.