Education Quotes

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
– Dominic Cooper
I studied secondary education.
– Jim McKay
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
– Ray Bradbury
I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.
– Skeet Ulrich
I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.
– Danica McKellar
I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.
– George J. Mitchell
I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.
– Clyde Tombaugh
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
– Michel de Montaigne
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
– Al Gore
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.
– Jerry Lewis
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
I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.
– Arthur Hailey
I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
– Vanessa Carlton
I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.
– Michelle Obama
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.
– Estelle Morris
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
– Leon Spinks
I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.
– Archie Panjabi
I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.
– Jenna Bush
I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.
– Susana Martinez
I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.
– Jane D. Hull
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
I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.
– Emma Watson
I have an education, I went to college, you know?
– Nicole Polizzi
I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
– Loni Anderson
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
– The Dalai Lama
I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.
– Ruben Studdard
I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'
– David Guetta
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
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
– Cate Blanchett
I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
– Danica McKellar
I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
– Spike Lee
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
– Bill Walton
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
– Sarah Zettel
I give the children education.
– Jackie Chan
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
I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.
– Kent McCord
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
I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.
– Alonzo Mourning
I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
– Haile Gebrselassie
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
– George Orwell
I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
– Callan McAuliffe
I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.
– Jenna Bush
I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.
– Wilma Mankiller
I don't know if I'm a national education figure.
– Jeb Bush
I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.
– Thabo Mbeki
I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
– Carl Lewis
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
– Steve Case
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
– Harri Holkeri
I did get a degree in special education.
– Clay Aiken
I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.
– Joshua Lederberg
I definitely had a top-notch education.
– Paul Giamatti
I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.
– Clay Aiken
I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.
– Richard Cobden
I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'
– Frances O'Grady
I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
– Bill Cosby
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
– Lech Walesa
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
– Wynton Marsalis
I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.
– Jonathan Kozol
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
– Steve Irwin
I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
– Kamala Harris
I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
– Charles Kennedy
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
– Andrew Cuomo
I believe in local control of education.
– Russ Feingold
I believe in education and wish I had a better one.
– Loretta Lynn
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
– Felix Bloch
I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.
– Mitt Romney
I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
– Itzhak Perlman
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
– Jonathan Kozol
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
– Carl Sagan
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
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
– Anne Sullivan Macy
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
– David Rockefeller
I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.
– Jimmy Smits
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.
– Michael J. Fox
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
– Bo Jackson
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
– Barbara Walters
I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.
– Loretta Lynn
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
– H. G. Wells
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
– Edward Thorndike
Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.
– Donna Shalala
Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
– Carol Bellamy
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.
– Giacomo Casanova
Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
– Marc Andreessen
Health and education are always issues.
– Helen Clark
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
– Joe Baca
Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
– John Sununu
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
– William Godwin
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
– Isabel Allende
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
– Jane Austen
Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.
– Nancy Pelosi
Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
– Charles Kennedy
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Freedom can occur only through education.
– Friedrich Schiller
Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.
– Jonathan Sacks
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
– Thomas Frank