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Quotes About Development

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.
~ Caroline Pratt
What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?
~ Terry Pratchett
If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.
~ Plutarch
The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.
~ George Weah
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.
~ Isaac D'Israeli
It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.
~ Narendra Modi
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
~ Unknown
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.
~ Simone Weil
The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.
~ Paul Newman
If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nature is stronger than education.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
My goal is more youth oriented. I'm super big on education, I was in school to be an elementary education teacher so I'm starting to build schools, getting supplies in schools in Nicaragua.
~ Asher Roth
As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.
~ Ann Bridge
Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.
~ Tyler Hilton
Education is the number one priority.
~ Vincent Kartheiser
I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.
~ Mark Shields
There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.
~ Thomas Huxley
Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.
~ Matt Chandler
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
~ Andre Gide
A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Very likely education does not make very much difference.
~ Gertrude Stein
Education, education, education
~ Tony Blair
You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
~ T. H. White
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
~ John Lancaster Spalding