Education Quotes

"I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education"

Bill Owens, Politician

"The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent"

Bob Riley, Politician

"If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system"

Sidney Hook, Philosopher

"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director

"Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas"

Bennie Thompson, Politician

"Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state"

John Hoeven, Politician

"Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education"

Bob Riley, Politician

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained"

James A. Garfield, President

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

"I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education"

John Updike, Novelist

"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny"

Charles Barkley, Athlete

"The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received"

John Grierson, Director

"This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Its well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman"

William Congreve, Poet

"Men of polite learning and a liberal education"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers"

Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist

"We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve"

William Glasser, Psychologist

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