Education Quotes

"Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete"

Norman Cousins, Author

"My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history"

Lawrence R. Klein, Economist

"Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education"

William Godwin, Writer

"The mere imparting of information is not education"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education"

Roy Romer, Politician

"I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education"

Roy Romer, Politician

"The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade"

David E. Price, Politician

"When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"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, Writer

"Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"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, Historian

"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?"

Susan George, Activist

"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, Economist

"Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it"

Anne Sullivan, Educator

"Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"I ain't got much education, but I got some sense"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century"

Mary A. Ward

"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions"

William Godwin, Writer

"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, Politician

"Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education"

Sargent Shriver, Politician

"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, Politician

"Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I believe in education and wish I had a better one"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy"

Anne Sullivan, Educator

"Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up"

Harvey Cushing, Scientist

"It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity"

Ellen Key, Writer

"Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive"

Henry W. Kendall, Scientist

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