Education Quotes

"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Education is the foundation of a strong society. In Norway, we strive to provide equal opportunities for all children, regardless of their background"

Jens Stoltenberg, Politician

"Norway's prosperity is based on the responsible management of its natural resources, a strong commitment to international cooperation, and a continued focus on education and innovation"

Jens Stoltenberg, Politician

"We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control"

Pink Floyd, Musician

"The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school"

Grace Abbott, Activist

"England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene"

Kevin Ayers, Composer

"During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too"

Suzanne Fields

"Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated"

Major Owens, Politician

"Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love"

Chris Burke, Actor

"Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education"

Uta Hagen, Actress

"If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage"

Danny Glover, Actor

"Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days"

Evan Parker, Musician

"Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses"

Ric Keller, Politician

"Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"All real education is the architecture of the soul"

William Bennett, Politician

"Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community"

Alan Autry, Actor

"No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy"

Brad Henry, Politician

"My education and background thoroughly inform my writing"

David Brin, Author

"Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"I did get a degree in special education"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information"

E. Franklin Frazier, Sociologist

"Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody"

Rory Bremner, Comedian

"Let people have an education and you can't stop them"

La Monte Young, Composer

"I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"Education is the mother of leadership"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

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