Education Quotes

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
– Philip Emeagwali
When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
– Andrea Jung
Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.
– Michelle Williams
What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.
– Reed Hastings
What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.
– Salman Khan
What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.
– Joschka Fischer
What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
– Michael Gove
What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'
– Michael Nutter
What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
– Kathleen Turner
What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.
– Danica McKellar
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?
– Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
– Stephen King
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
– Jim DeMint
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.
– Kinky Friedman
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
– Carol Moseley Braun
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.
– Suze Orman
We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.
– Donna Shalala
We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.
– Paul Ryan
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
– Arthur Ashe
We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things.
– Jan Brewer
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
– Woodrow Wilson
We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
– Yakov Smirnoff
We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.
– Ryan White
We face a choice this election. President Obama is fighting for changes that grow the economy from the middle out and help all Americans succeed - jobs, education, health reform, the DREAM Act, equal pay for women. He is moving us forward with opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. Mitt Romney wants to take us back to yesterday.
– Eva Longoria
We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.
– Estelle Morris
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
– Maria Montessori
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
– Maria Montessori
We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
– Barack Obama
We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
– Dan Lipinski
We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.
– Jennifer Garner
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
– Julian Bond
Very likely education does not make very much difference.
– Gertrude Stein
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
– Sonia Sotomayor
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
– Marian Wright Edelman
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
– Rutherford B. Hayes
Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
– Desmond Tutu
Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.
– Michael Gove
Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.
– Bobby Scott
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
– Philip Pullman
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
– Thomas Sowell
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.
– Mark Kennedy
Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.
– Barbara Boxer
Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
– Marian Wright Edelman
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
– Bobby Scott
Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.
– Kerry Washington
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
– Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
– Aleister Crowley
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
– Thomas Jefferson
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
– Muriel Spark
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
– Jonathan Sacks
To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
– John Dickey
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
– William Glasser
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
– Jennifer Granholm
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
– Wynton Marsalis
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
– Jenny McCarthy
This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
– Ann Bancroft
This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.
– Karen Mills
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
– William Glasser
This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.
– Michael N. Castle
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
– Carter G. Woodson
They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.
– Michael N. Castle
They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
– Dave Van Ronk
These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.
– Kevin Rudd
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
– Will Rogers
There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.
– Julie Walters
There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
– Anne Campbell
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
– Toni Morrison
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
– David Hume
There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.
– Nikki Haley
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
– Salma Hayek
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.
– Steven Soderbergh
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
– Sachin Tendulkar
There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
– will.i.am
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
– Hillary Clinton
The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
– Jack Kemp
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
– John Sterling
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
– Jonathan Sacks
The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
– Angela Merkel
The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
– Hamid Karzai
The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
– Minoru Yamasaki
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
– Plutarch
The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.
– John Grierson
The value of a good education has never left me.
– Michelle Pfeiffer
The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
– Gavin Newsom
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
– Mortimer Adler
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
– Michelle Obama
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
– David Bailey
The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
– Lucy Powell
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
– Bryant McGill
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
– Carter G. Woodson
THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.
– Joseph Lancaster
The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
– John Conyers
The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
– Valerie Jarrett