Quotes About Development

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

Education is at a turning point

People think of education as something they can finish.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

An investment in your country's education pays the best interest.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you.

One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.