Pastoral Resources

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Few things are as essential as education.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Education is the best provision for old age.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.