Quotes about: education

Sixty percent of us got $304. Has your property taxes gone up more than $304 because the president cut cops on the beat, refused to fund special education, refused to fund no child left behind?
– Howard Dean
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
– John Dewey
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
– Diogenes the Cynic
There is no education like adversity.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
– Benjamin Disraeli
One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
– James Dobson
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
– Christopher Dodd
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
– Norman Douglas
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
The civil rights of European Americans are being violated by affirmative action, forced integration and anti-European immigration policies... . We face cultural discrimination in the media and education... . An example is the media hate crime hysteria that highlights and publicizes any white crime against minorities.
– David Duke
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
– Alexandre Dumas
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
– Will Durant
Education is the transmission of civilization.
– Will Durant
Education ought everywhere to be religious education. Parents are bound to employ no instructors who will instruct their children religiously. To commit children to the care of irreligious persons is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves.
– Timothy Dwight
When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.
– Shirin Ebadi
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
– Tryon Edwards
Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
– Robert. L. Ehrlich
My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future.
– Robert. L. Ehrlich
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
– Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
– Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
– Albert Einstein
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
– Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
– Albert Einstein
But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly, is no. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8 - which contains the general welfare clause - seeks to restrain federal government, not expand it.
– Larry Elder
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
– Jane Elliot
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that imitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better, or for worse.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.
– Michael Enzi
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
– Epictetus
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
– Lane Evans
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
– Edward Everett
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
– Ilya Ehrenburg
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
– James Farmer
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
– Dianne Feinstein
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
– W. C. Fields
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
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
– Ernie Fletcher
Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.
– Ernie Fletcher
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
– B. C. Forbes
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
– Malcolm Forbes
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
– E. M. Forster
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
– Anatole France
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
– Benjamin Franklin
Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.
– Bill Frist
Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.
– Bill Frist
Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
– Bill Frist
If we look to the future, when we talk about outsourcing jobs, when we talk about global competitiveness and our efficiency, none of that matters very much unless we have appropriate training and education for our young people today who are the workforce of tomorrow. It is an economic reality, and we are failing.
– Bill Frist
Our Founding Fathers, who are cited so frequently and appropriately on this floor, believed deeply that a successful democracy and a viable democracy requires an educated and engaged citizenry. I am confident that by adhering to high standards of achievement and accountability, we will produce an education system worthy of their great hopes.
– Bill Frist
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
– Erich Fromm
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
– Robert Frost
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
– Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
– Robert Frost
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
– Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.
– Renee Fleming
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
– Abraham Flexner
The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.
– Peter Fraser
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
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
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
– A. Bartlett Giamatti
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
I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts is one of the most I believe that as a part of the educational process, each child should have access to a music education program. That is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.
– Rudy Giuliani
Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.
– Hermann Goering
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
– Emma Goldman
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
– Paul Gray
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
– Alan Greenspan
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
– Christine Gregoire
Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.
– Christine Gregoire
Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.
– Christine Gregoire
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
We have lots of studies about what's wrong with our education system. We need to accept responsibility, be bold, find solutions and move forward to make education a centerpiece of our economic development.
– Christine Gregoire
Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.
– Henry Anatole Grunwald
Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda.
– Kenny Guinn
I was taught by my father, who could not read, that reading is the basis of all education. I learned this painful lesson as I watched him suffer through those simple tasks that all of us who can read take for granted. His inability to read affected every aspect of his life, and mine.
– Kenny Guinn
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
– David P. Gardner
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
– Virginia Gildersleeve
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
– Vartan Gregorian
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.
– Marvin Hamlisch
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
– Sydney J. Harris
I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.
– Dave Heineman
I believe education is the great equalizer. Our children are our hope for the future, so we have an obligation to provide them with the tools to succeed. There is no more powerful tool than knowledge.
– Dave Heineman
You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state.
– Dave Heineman
Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
– Brad Henry
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
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
– Matthew Henry
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
– Napoleon Hill
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
– Adolf Hitler
Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state.
– John Hoeven
It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.
– John Hoeven
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
– Eric Hoffer
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
– Eric Hoffer
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
– Horace
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
– David Horowitz
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.
– Sam Houston
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
– Sam Houston
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
– Victor Hugo