Alfred Quotes

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.

Without an education, you won't have a future.

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

I would stand at the cradle of every colored boy and girl in the land and bid them to awake from their slumber, put on their clothes and shoes, prepare their toilet, eat an early breakfast, throw their satchel of books on their shoulders and hasten to the school house and remain until they have secured a parchment of graduation

We want a corps of educated instructors – we want gratuitous instruction in our academies and colleges. The di minorum of learning ought to be elevated in the scale of public estimation and intellectual endowment.

Give education and knowledge to the common people.

I just wanted to have an education.

It's important to have the opportunity to learn.

We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.

Few things are as essential as education.

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.

I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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