* Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. -- Thomas Jefferson

* "Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence." -- Scarlett Johansson "I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong. -- Scarlett Johansson

* Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love. -- Barbara Jordan

* "The highest result of education is tolerance." -- Helen Keller (1903)

* "Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation." -- John F. Kennedy Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. -- John F. Kennedy

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."
-- John F. Kennedy

 

* We teach academic subjects and we assume life skills will somehow be acquired along the way. Not a safe assumption! The curriculum has to include things like communication, conflict resolution, parenting, family dynamics, critical thinking, values, ethics. -- Azim Khamisa

* "Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor." -- Craig Kielburger

* Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build. -- Yuri Kochiyama

* There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health. -- C. Everett Koop

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
-- Diogenes Laertius

* That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance." -- Abraham Lincoln "Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance." -- Abraham Lincoln

* Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. -- John Locke The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. -- John Locke Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. -- John Locke

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."
~ John Lubbock