Education Quotes

"I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education"

Tommy Rettig, Actor

"But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense"

Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

"I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy"

George Andrew Olah, Scientist

"Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete"

Joyce A. Myers, Businessman

"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)"

Rudolph A. Marcus, Scientist

"Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature"

Rosamund Pike, Actress

"The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects"

Robert M. Hutchins, Educator

"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view"

Robert M. Hutchins, Educator

"High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life"

Ruben Hinojosa, Politician

"At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security"

Ruben Hinojosa, Politician

"A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work"

Timothy Thomas Fortune, Writer

"Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre"

Steven Chu, Scientist

"We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State"

Major R. Owens, Politician

"We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge"

Matt Blunt, Politician

"Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent"

Lucretia Mott, Activist

"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out"

Kent McCord, Actor

"We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened"

Liam Fox, Politician

"Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda"

Kenny Guinn, Politician

"Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts"

Rick Ross, Celebrity

"Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books"

Jodi Rell, Politician

"I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done"

Timothy Thomas Fortune, Writer

"There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't"

Steven Soderbergh, Director

"Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue"

John Larson, Politician

"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat"

Martin Henry Fischer

"It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained"

Millicent Fawcett, Activist

"Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations"

Bob Beauprez, Politician

"I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements"

Vanessa Carlton, Musician

"A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education"

Charles Vest, Educator

"The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so"

Harriet Martineau, Writer

"A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers"

Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet

"In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective"

Stanley Fish, Writer

"He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education"

Richard Lamm, Politician

"I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal"

Karen Hughes, Politician

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