Quotes About Empowerment

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.

Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

The importance of education plays a huge role.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

I dreamt of a country where education would prevail.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.