"And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education."
-Rainn Wilson
societyView Quote
"And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.“
-Rainn Wilson
posted in education
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings."
-Rainn Wilson
scienceView Quote
"Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown."
-Rainn Wilson
sadView Quote
"I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that."
-Rainn Wilson
sadView Quote
"So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches."
-Rainn Wilson
religionView Quote
"Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature."
-Rainn Wilson
powerView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
-Richard Cobden
educationView Quote
"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."
-Richard Cobden
educationView Quote
"I studied secondary education."
-Jim McKay
educationView Quote
"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
-Kent McCord
educationView Quote
"I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education."
-Alonzo Mourning
educationView Quote
"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
-Sidney Blumenthal
educationView Quote