Education Quotes

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
– Estelle Morris
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
– William John Wills
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
– Dee Dee Myers
As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.
– will.i.am
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
– William Godwin
As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
– Naguib Mahfouz
As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.
– Julian Bond
As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.
– Anna Friel
As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
– Sargent Shriver
As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
– Joe Baca
As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.
– Mark Kennedy
As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.
– Gwen Moore
As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
– Ed Pastor
Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
– James Dyson
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
– Lee Iacocca
Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.
– Jonathan Kozol
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
– Marshall McLuhan
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
– William Hazlitt
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
– Alan K. Simpson
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?
– Frederic Bastiat
And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
– Sam Donaldson
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
– Jon Secada
And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.
– Terrence Howard
And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.
– Andre Braugher
And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
– Wavy Gravy
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
– Charles Stanley
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
– Anatole France
An educated people can be easily governed.
– Frederick the Great
An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
– Francois Hollande
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
– Alan K. Simpson
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
– Gavin Newsom
Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.
– Sue Johanson
America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
– Fareed Zakaria
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
– Ed Markey
All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.
– John Walters
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
– Emma Goldman
All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
– Bobby Vinton
After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.
– Michael N. Castle
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
– Michael Morpurgo
Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.
– Seth Graham-Smith
About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.
– Reed Hastings
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
– Gwendolyn Brooks
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
– Joseph Lancaster
A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.
– Arne Duncan
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.
– Allen West
A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.
– Cat Cora
A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.
– Pierre Salinger
A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.
– Michael Morpurgo
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
– Mikhail Baryshnikov
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
– Phillip E. Johnson
A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.
– Cornel West
'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
– Alexander Pope
'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.
– Matt LeBlanc
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
– Henry B. Adams
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
– Joseph Addison
I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
– Daniel Akaka
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
– Buzz Aldrin
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
– Woody Allen
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
– Maya Angelou
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
– Maya Angelou
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
– Brooks Atkinson
If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.
– Christopher Andreae
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
– Sir Francis Bacon
When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.
– Frank Baer
We must tell it to the world that the higher education is necessary to the best agriculture. We must tell our friends of our enthusiasm for the generous life of the country. We must say that we believe in our ability to make good use of every lesson which the University has given us. We must say to every man that our first love is steadfast, our hopes are high, and our enthusiasm is great. Our hearts are so full that we must celebrate.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.
– Howard Baker
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
– James A. Baldwin
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.
– Jacques Barzun
We must continue working to make flu education a priority along with vaccine production to effectively prepare ourselves against another epidemic.
– Evan Bayh
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty-how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
– Henry Ward Beecher
I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
– Annie Besant
The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.
– Jeff Bingaman
I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.
– Rod Blagojevich
Education is a cornerstone of civilization, the strongest reinforcement that we can build to bridge the two Louisianas.
– Kathleen Blanco
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
– Allan Bloom
Public education is an investment in our future.
– Matt Blunt
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
– Matt Blunt
Education is so important when it comes to domesticity. I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.
– Erma Bombeck
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
– Daniel J. Boorstin
As you may be aware, the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law by the President on January 8, 2002. I was happy to support this bill, which was the result of months of intense bipartisan negotiations. This legislation sets the stage for a limited, but productive, role for the federal government in the education of our nation's children.
– Allen Boyd
Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.
– Allen Boyd
My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. I'm going to work as hard as I know how, and I'm going to ask each of you to help me to offer all Tennessee children the education they need to energize their God-given talents to take them as far as they can go.
– Phil Bredesen
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
– John Mason Brown
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
– Jean de la Bruyere
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
– Conrad Burns
The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.
– Lord Byron
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
– William C. Bagley
To that end I am proposing an agenda that can be summed up by three words: Momentum, UpGrade and Streamline. We must continue our Momentum in job creation and economic growth, UpGrade education in this tough budget period and Streamline that budget back into structural balance.
– Haley Barbour
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
– Bill Beattie
Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing the benefits and costs. Benefits include cultural and other non-monetary gains along with improvement in earnings and occupations, while costs usually depend mainly on the foregone value of the time spent on these investments.
– Gary Becker
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
– Gary Becker
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
– Avery Brundage
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
– Avery Brundage
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
– Michael Caine
I believe that we must work to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies through education and family planning. But I also believe that our Constitution protects a woman's right to privacy, and that this constitutional right encompasses the decision of whether to terminate a pregnancy.
– Maria Cantwell
Education has always served to increase my awareness. Teaching helps me better understand what it is that I do.
– Ron Carter
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
– George Washington Carver
Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
– G. K. Chesterton