Education Quotes

"My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination"

David Horowitz, Writer

"We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!"

Alan Hansen, Athlete

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children"

Judith Martin, Author

"In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time"

Marlo Thomas, Actress

"My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work"

Mark Mothersbaugh, Musician

"My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"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, Politician

"But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education"

Paul Hoffman, Celebrity

"If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society"

Sargent Shriver, Politician

"We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"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, Historian

"I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy"

James E. Rogers, Educator

"It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education"

Edmund Barton, Politician

"The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice"

Anne Sullivan, Educator

"With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory"

Billy Joel, Musician

"A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested"

Edmund Barton, Politician

"We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public"

Elliott Carter, Composer

"It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death"

Christy Turlington, Model

"Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education"

Anne Campbell, Politician

"Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level"

Todd English, Celebrity

"But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing"

Stuart Pearce, Coach

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army"

Edward Everett, Statesman

"If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City"

John Tesh, Musician

"A good education is another name for happiness"

Ann Plato

"Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"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, Activist

"Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees"

Munshi Premchand, Writer

"The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut"

David Obey, Politician

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