Education Quotes

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
– Brad Sherman
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
– John Hope
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
I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
– Benedict Cumberbatch
I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.
– Matthew Morrison
I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.
– Eva Longoria
I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
– Alan Parsons
I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.
– Eric Bana
I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.
– Jack White
I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.
– Will Estes
I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
– Mikhail Baryshnikov
I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
– Karen Duffy
I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
– Anne Sullivan Macy
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
– George Andrew Olah
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
– William Morris
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
– Billy Sunday
I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
– Fannie Farmer
I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.
– Evander Holyfield
I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.
– Kathleen Sebelius
I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.
– Cat Cora
I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.
– Pratibha Patil
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
I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
– Alan Autry
I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
– Joichi Ito
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.
– Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
– Clarence Thomas
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
– Mary Augusta Ward
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
– John Ruskin
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
– Chanakya
Education is the art of making man ethical.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
– Lillian Smith
During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.
– Michael Franti
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
– Lawrence Welk
Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.
– John Spratt
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.
– Peter Agre
Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful.
– Laurent Lamothe
But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.
– Kathleen Sebelius
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
As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.
– Sue Kelly
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
– Rainn Wilson
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
– William Bennett
Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.
– Charles Vest