Education Quotes

"Education is all a matter of building bridges"

"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, Activist

"I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

"On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality"

Allen West, Politician

"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence"

Booker T. Washington, Educator

"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, First Lady

"My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education"

John H. Johnson, Businessman

"Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education"

Tipper Gore, Celebrity

"Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada"

James E. Rogers, Educator

"NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government"

Bob Inglis, Politician

"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society"

Kent Conrad, Politician

"A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be"

Ann Plato

"A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen"

Anne Seward

"I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education"

William Wiley, Soldier

"I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out"

Ellen Ochoa, Astronaut

"The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available"

Roy Romer, Politician

"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian"

Edmund Barton, Politician

"I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you"

Amber Tamblyn, Actress

"The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education"

James S. Coleman, Sociologist

"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

Maria Montessori, Educator

"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"Nature has always had more force than education"

Voltaire, Writer

"I've never let my school interfere with my education"

Mark Twain, Author

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education"

Mark Twain, Author

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned"

Mark Twain, Author

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability"

Cicero, Philosopher

"I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy"

Woody Allen, Director

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers"

Woody Allen, Director

"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"It is only the ignorant who despise education"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

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