Education Role Quotes

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

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

What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

The notion about education has changed and that now it’s sort of much more aligned with, “Well, schools can’t combat poverty. We can’t possibly expect schools to do the work to overcome poverty.” I think that notion which has changed over the last few decades is part, not all, but part of what is maybe leading to people feeling less of a sense of possibility.

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

I do believe ultimately the role is of our state government to ensure every child in this state has a great public school education.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

We must acknowledge the importance of teachers to the society.

Education is the complete answer to all these other social issues.

What is the purpose of education if not, at a minimum, to prepare people for work?

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

We regard education as a means of safeguarding the family from too great a reliance upon the state rather than as a means for the state to take over the responsibilities of the family.

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.