Education Quotes

"By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man"

John Dryden, Poet

"A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised"

Alicia Machado, Celebrity

"Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense"

James Madison, President

"See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities"

Bill Lear, Inventor

"In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal"

Loretta Young, Actress

"I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education"

Russell Means, Activist

"I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work"

Julian Bond, Activist

"We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives"

Robert Welch

"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government"

Sam Houston, Politician

"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education"

Julian Bond, Activist

"The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

"Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth"

Chanakya, Politician

"On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever"

Al Gore, Vice President

"I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"I've never been a big believer in formal education"

Megan Fox, Actress

"Education is the art of making man ethical"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

"There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers"

John T. Walton, Businessman

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