Education Is Important Quotes

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

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• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.

  Grayson L. Kirk

  Education, Personality, Important

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

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• If jobs are important, education is important.

  Amartya Sen

  Jobs, Important, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

  Alexis Herman

  Real, People, Important

  "Praeger Handbook on Understanding and Preventing Workplace Discrimination". Book by Michele Antoinette Paludi, p. 13, 2010.

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• I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

  Phil Mickelson

  Sports, College, Thinking

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• The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

  Bob Riley

  Important, Amount

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• I definitely think education is important and both education and sport link really well together. I like to give education and sport the best that I can to see if I can succeed in both.

  Jazmin Carlin

  Sports, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues, what have you. That's why I think education is important. I'm really glad my dad drilled into me these things that he had lived through and it helped me relate to him better and understand the things he thought were important and why he was raising me the way he was.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Summer, Memorial Day, Dad

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