Education Quotes

"The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me"

"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am"

"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor"

"Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat"

"I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps"

"There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning"

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning"

"Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds"

"My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met"

"The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country"

"The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door"

"Education is not so important as people think"

"Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability"

"But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools"

"If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?"

"I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months"

"All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts"

"At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education"

"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill"

"An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate"

"Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day"

"I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education"

"Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them"

"We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another"

"The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus"

"Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value"

"No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress"

"You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education"

"True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life"

"At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people"

"An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body"

"It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late"

"I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life"