Education Quotes

"Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need"

Christopher Bond, Politician

"The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education"

Ron Kind, Politician

"Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism"

Jane Elliot, Actress

"As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"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, Author

"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated"

Frederick William Robertson, Clergyman

"I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world"

Steve Case, Businessman

"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny"

Norman Cousins, Author

"I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit"

Ron Silver, Actor

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance"

Derek Bok, Lawyer

"The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education"

John Conyers, Politician

"I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more"

Jon Secada, Musician

"I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education"

Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor

"So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children"

Phil Lesh, Musician

"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical"

Alan Perlis, Scientist

"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, Lawyer

"There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful"

Leroy Chiao, Astronaut

"Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy"

Mike Rogers

"A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty"

Lane Evans, Politician

"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine"

John Baldacci, Politician

"We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost"

Roy Romer, Politician

"Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education"

Peter Criss, Musician

"Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!"

Roger Moore, Actor

"If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

"Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education"

John Hersey, Writer

"The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year"

Mila Kunis, Actress

"If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them"

Mary Antin, Activist

"Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation"

Patty Murray, Politician

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