Why is education so important for living a good and useful life, an article with some quotes, links and resources to stress the fundamental role of learning in our societies.
Education is crucial because it empowers individuals and strengthens societies. It fosters critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and creativity, equipping people with the knowledge needed to adapt in a fast-changing world. Education helps reduce poverty and inequality, promotes social cohesion, and encourages responsible citizenship by teaching shared values.
It also drives economic growth by creating skilled workforces, innovating industries, and supporting sustainable development. An educated population is healthier, more productive, and better able to contribute to and protect democratic values, which creates a foundation for a fairer and more resilient society.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
John Locke
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John Ruskin
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes.
C.S. Lewis
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.
Mark Twain
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be… those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes… those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober – minded men.
Socrates
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Mark Twain
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. Lewis
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Leonardo da Vinci
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. Lewis
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