20th century Quote by Elie Wiesel

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking and leads…

— Henry Giroux

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

— Jean Piaget

Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the…

— Shakira

The violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow.

— Shervin Pishevar

The vicious cycle of violence is real. But if people simply stopped listening to their ignorant parents, their biased religions, their corrupt government and…

— Gary Yourofsky

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

— Dalai Lama

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

— Steven Pinker

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of…

— Marshall McLuhan

Education must promote peace, security and happiness.

— Sai Baba

“Remember...Violence only breeds violence & hate breeds hate...if we want to better humanity we must teach this to our future generations from young.”

— Timothy Pina

“By undercutting fundamentalism and intolerance, education would curtail violence and war. By empowering women, it would curb poverty and the population explosion.”

— John Brockman

Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.

— Malala Yousafzai