Famous Quotes

"I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them."

Johann Lamont on Education

More quotes about Education

• "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

  Nelson Mandela on Education

• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

  Albert Einstein on Education

• "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

  Aristotle on Education

• "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

  Maya Angelou on Education

• "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

  Oscar Wilde on Education

More quotes by Johann Lamont

• "Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality."

• "Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about."

• "Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about."

• "I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything."