Education Quotes

"As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care"

Mary Landrieu, Politician

"The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule"

Fareed Zakaria, Journalist

"Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization"

John Agyekum Kufuor, Statesman

"Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education"

Hugh MacDiarmid, Poet

"Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture"

David Amram, Composer

"During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message"

Charles Vest, Educator

"Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true"

Charles Vest, Educator

"Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development"

Elizabeth Blackwell, Scientist

"People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education"

David Soul, Actor

"I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities"

David McCullough, Historian

"I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible"

Robert M. Hutchins, Educator

"With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level"

Sue Kelly, Politician

"I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere"

Mark Foley, Politician

"As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education"

Sue Kelly, Politician

"A dynamic economy begins with a good education"

Bob Taft, Politician

"I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory"

Alan Parsons, Musician

"In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools"

Mark Foley, Politician

"But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care"

Kathleen Sebelius, Politician

"The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician"

Kenneth Edmonds, Musician

"It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing"

Frank Shorter, Athlete

"And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene"

John Breaux, Politician

"It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that"

Ed Miliband, Politician

"Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian"

Shelley Berman, Comedian

"Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education"

Ed Markey, Politician

"Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have"

Maurice Hinchey, Politician

"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age"

Joel Coen, Director

"We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy"

Bob Taft, Politician

"And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead"

Andre Braugher, Actor

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