Quotes About Empowerment

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

Only the educated are free.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

Education is too important to be left solely to educators.

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

We're asking schools to look at kids as partners in education.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

Education cannot be a matter of charity, Education has to be a matter of Right.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.