Education Quote by Thomas Sowell

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

— Nicola Sturgeon

“It’s interesting that many of the best instructors in early America were Scottish Presbyterians. As historian George Marsden affirmed, “[I]t is not much of…

— David Barton

As class barriers tumbled and Britain became a more meritocratic society, young, well-educated Scots were best placed to exploit the new social mobility.

— Andrew Neil

“Scottish people have grasped the choice that they have to make directly  – unmediated by the political class - as an opportunity to imagine…

— Adam Ramsay

“In Scotland, there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners; a provincial eagerness and acuteness appear; the poverty of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The English, in their ignorance, still have the romantic notion that Scottish schools are superior to English ones; they are at least a generation…

— Andrew Neil

The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind of society…

— Rory Stewart

“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another”

— Thomas Sowell

“Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather monstrous historical…

— Malcolm Chapman

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

— Prince Philip

A perennial problem that has faced the Scottish Highlands is that, time and again, too many of the more talented young people have had…

— Charles Kennedy

The settled will of the Scottish people.

— John Smith