Education Effect Quotes

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

You educate a boy, and he'll have fewer children, but it's a small effect. You educate a girl, and, on average, she will have a significantly smaller family.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact on fertility. Women's do. So, by the way, as a man, it's not to the glory of men specifically that it's women's education that reduces child mortality.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.

That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. … Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

The wide spread of education among the journeyman mechanics of this country diminishes daily the value of the labour and skill of almost all masters and employers by increasing the number of persons who possess their peculiar knowledge

If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.