Education Quotes

"It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare"

Barack Obama, President

"Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact"

Barack Obama, President

"Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"The first duty of a government is to give education to the people"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"Education is not just about academics. It is about building character and helping children become their best selves"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"Every child deserves an education that meets their individual needs"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world"

Malcolm X, Activist

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today"

Malcolm X, Activist

"You can't legislate good will - that comes through education"

Malcolm X, Activist

"Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything"

William J. Clinton, President

"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"Education has for its object the formation of character"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

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