Skip to content

Education should be able to distinguish between the heritage that helps and that heritage hampers the tradition that undermines and the tradition that fortifies.

— Zakir Hussain

Another quote →

More quotes by Zakir Hussain

I have after years of thinking on the subject come to the conviction that work is the only instrument of effective education. It may sometimes be manual work, at others, non-manual work.

Uniqueness of Zakir Husain and His Contributions (1997)

For God’s sake, reform and improve the politics of our country.

Quest for Truth (1999)

Had your mother not been so well-organized, so simple, so virtuous and so resourceful, I would not have been what I am today.

Quest for Truth (1999)

Our sweat is the answer to all our problems, and that the tiller, the artisan and the teacher are the three agents who feed the body, mind and soul.

Uniqueness of Zakir Husain and His Contributions (1997)

Education is the master and politics is its servant. It is necessary to combine power with morality as well as with science and technology

All Zakir Hussain quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Zakir Hussain (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.