Education Quotes

"I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools"

Charles Tupper, Statesman

"By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools"

Michael N. Castle, Politician

"At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall"

Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

"My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future"

Robert. L. Ehrlich, Politician

"People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care"

Tom Daschle, Politician

"My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System"

James Cronin, Physicist

"Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him"

Richard Widmark, Actor

"The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work"

William Masters, Scientist

"The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset"

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Scientist

"To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing"

Karl Rove, Politician

"I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television"

Victoria Wood, Comedian

"With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass"

Ron Jaworski, Athlete

"Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues"

Ernie Fletcher, Politician

"Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual"

Abdoulaye Wade, Statesman

"They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

"I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum"

Karen Duffy, Actress

"Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay"

Robert Brady, Politician

"Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"Having an education is invaluable"

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Actress

"This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work"

Tavis Smiley, Author

"From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward"

John Pople, Scientist

"My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist"

Susie Bright, Writer

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion"

Muriel Spark, Novelist

"The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure"

Ruben Hinojosa, Politician

"There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests"

Marvin Hamlisch, Composer

"The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence"

John Jay Hooker, Businessman

"Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing"

Michael N. Castle, Politician

"When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me"

Yuan T. Lee, Scientist

"My family gave me the best in education"

William Standish Knowles, Scientist

"The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education"

Jodi Rell, Politician

"I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy"

Sanaa Lathan, Actress

"And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays"

Mark Rylance, Actor

"It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby"

Mandy Moore, Musician

"Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

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