Quotes about: education

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
– Robert M. Hutchins
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
– Robert M. Hutchins
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
– Robert M. Hutchins
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
– Robert M. Hutchins
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
– Aldous Huxley
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
– Thomas Henry Huxley
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
– William Haley
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
– Charles Handy
I am thrilled and honored to announce my support of George W. Bush for the presidency. Jeb has provided a constant reminder of the power of values-based leadership-the same George has shown in Texas. I also share George's commitment to education, and I look forward to sharing his vision with Floridians.
– Katherine Harris
Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
– B. R. Hayden
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
– Cynthia Heimel
I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do.
– Shuler Hensley
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
– Robert Hewison
Had your father spend more of your mother's immoral earnings on your education you would not even then have been a gentleman.
– Seymour Hicks
The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a wholesome personality are inevitably their own.
– Joel Hildebrand
Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.
– E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
– E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.
– Geoffrey Holder
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
– Sidney Hook
I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
– H. L. Hunt
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
– William Ralph Inge
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay-public.
– Isocrates
Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.
– James Jeffords
We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.
– James Jeffords
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
– John F. Kennedy
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
– John F. Kennedy
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
– Charles F. Kettering
The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately, have been manipulating this process in their own career interests, not in the interests of our young people.
– Alan Keyes
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
– John Maynard Keynes
The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.
– Ron Kind
The random alchemy of my career was that it was in the stars that I was to audition for Trevor Nunn, and he invited me into his Royal Shakespeare Company. Therefore, in the late '60s and early '70s, through Trevor, Peter Brook, Buzz Goodbody, through the great directors I worked with and the great roles I was privileged to play, that was my home, my education, my parent, my friend. That company was everything to me.
– Ben Kingsley
My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.
– John Knowles
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
– Karl Kraus
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
– Karl Kraus
No religious organization must be allowed to impose its biased views on the rest of us about what they consider to be proper morality, education, sexual behavior, marriage, divorce, birth control, abortion, stem cell research by legislating their private prejudices on the rest of us.
– Bernard Katz
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
– Alfred Kazin
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
– Barnaby C. Keeney
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
– Francis Keppel
I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.
– Steve Kerr
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
– Grayson Kirk
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
– Robert Kiyosaki
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
– Louis L'Amour
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
– General Robert E. Lee
I've derived a lot of pleasure and education from the theatre. It's great when audiences really enjoy it. It's part of my life.
– Mike Leigh
As a role model for young girls and women, I just encourage them to continue their education and set their goals. And for me, mine are just really high and I just happen to be a professional basketball player but I really am a stickler for my goals and I wanted to get my Master's.
– Lisa Leslie
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
– C. S. Lewis
It is time for President Bush to deal with the fiscal crisis facing America, but cutting education is the wrong way to fix it.
– Joseph Lieberman
The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.
– Joseph Lieberman
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
– Abraham Lincoln
Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
– Blanche Lincoln
I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed.
– Linda Lingle
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
– John Locke
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.
– John Locke
That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
– Anita Loos
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
– John Lubbock
To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.
– George B. Leonard
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
– Horace Mann
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
– Horace Mann
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
– Horace Mann
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
– Judith Martin
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
– Harriet Martineau
The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.
– William H. Masters
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
– Bryant H. McGill
True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
– Bryant H. McGill
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
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
– Jack Miller
Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however worthy, to make judgments.
– Richard Mitchell
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
– Michel de Montaigne
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
– Maria Montessori
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
– Maria Montessori
Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.
– Patty Murray
Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.
– Patty Murray
Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
– John Murray
The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development in order to improve the quality of life of people in my country in particular and in the African region in general.
– Wangari Maathai
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
– Andy McIntyre
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I thought I'd get a good education and do some acting at the same time.
– Ben McKenzie
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
– Agnes de Mille
Her education was erratic, though she learned to add by counting the nightly box-office takings.
– Sheridan Morley
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
– Gouverneur Morris
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
– Lucretia Mott
As we move deeper into the 21st Century, the need for a quality public school system will become more of an economic issue and more of a civil rights issue. Because, as our economy relies more on brains and less on brawn, the only way everyone can secure all the blessings of liberty is to receive a quality education.
– Janet Napolitano
Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.
– Janet Napolitano
Today's children need more years of education than we are offering. And they need more daily hours of instruction than we are providing. They are ready to learn long before kindergarten, and on the other end of the spectrum, all of them must have access to advanced education for years after they graduate from high school.
– Janet Napolitano
We have protected K-12 education. We have protected vital services.
– Janet Napolitano
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
So let us be blunt: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberties of the enemies of God.
– Gary North
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
– Barack Obama
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
– Ellen Ochoa
Claude Hopkins... maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.
– David M. Ogilvy
Education is a vacine for violence.
– Edward James Olmos
I'm not proud of everything I've done. I'm not proud of having a poor education. I'm not proud of being dyslexic. I'm not proud of being an alcoholic drug addict. I'm not proud of biting the head off a bat. I'm not proud of having attention deficit disorder. But I'm a real guy. To be Ozzy Osbourne, it could be worse. I could be Sting.
– Ozzy Osbourne
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
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
– Camille Paglia
Of course there is a huge in our material welfare, religious upbringing, and things like that. But things like your family, your house, your children's education, your hope for the future, are things that throughout the Muslim world they would share very easily with their counterparts in America.
– Michael Palin
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
– Alan Perlis
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.
– Rick Perry
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
– Wendell Phillips