Education Quotes

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
– Carol Bellamy
The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?
– Susan George
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?
– Hugh Mackay
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
– Richard Cobden
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
– Sydney J. Harris
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
– James S. Coleman
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
– Pierre Bourdieu
The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.
– Dominic Cooper
The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.
– John Engler
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
– Anthony J. D'Angelo
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
– Katherine Dunham
The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.
– Rick Santorum
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
– John Glenn
The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
– Jane Rule
The mere imparting of information is not education.
– Carter G. Woodson
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
– Marilyn vos Savant
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
– Noam Chomsky
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
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
– Alvin Toffler
The highest result of education is tolerance.
– Helen Keller
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
– Rabindranath Tagore
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
– Michael Jackson
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
– George Santayana
The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.
– Mia Love
The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.
– Rick Santorum
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
– Gaston Caperton
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
– John Updike
The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
– Twyla Tharp
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
– Morris Dees
The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
– Warren Farrell
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
– John Ruskin
The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.
– Trevor Nunn
The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
– Kamisese Mara
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
– Daisaku Ikeda
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
– Orson Scott Card
The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.
– Chaka Fattah
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
– Alphonso Jackson
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
– Plato
The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.
– Lewis Thomas
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
– Samuel Richardson
The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.
– John Jay Hooker
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
– Joseph Lancaster
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
– Ron Lewis
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.
– Rick Ross
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
– John Dewey
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
– Dennis Miller
The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.
– Bill Rancic
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
– Mitt Romney
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
– William James
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
– Paul Erdos
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
– Tallulah Bankhead
Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.
– Arne Duncan
Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.
– Jesse Helms
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.
– Bobby Scott
Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.
– Arlen Specter
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
– Stephen Vizinczey
States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.
– Anna Lindh
State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.
– Arne Duncan
Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.
– Todd English
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
– Phil Lesh
So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.
– Vidal Sassoon
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.
– Charles Schumer
Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.
– Tom Hiddleston
Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.
– Phyllis Schlafly
Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.
– Donna Shalala
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
– Karl Kraus
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
– Bill Cosby
Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.
– Bobby Vinton
Segregation has no place in the education system.
– Richard Dawkins
See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.
– Michelle Obama
Responsibility educates.
– Wendell Phillips
Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.
– Arne Duncan
Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.
– Judy Biggert
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
– Mary Harris Jones
Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.
– Sherri Shepherd
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
– Sargent Shriver
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
– Jonathan Kozol
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
– Alphonso Jackson
President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.
– Cristina Saralegui
President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.
– Elizabeth Warren
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
– Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.
– John O. Brennan
Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
– P. J. O'Rourke
Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
– Anne Campbell
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
– Angela Davis
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
– Charles Barkley
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
– George Will
People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
– Nina Bawden
Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
– Roger Moore
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
– David Suzuki
Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.
– Jane Fonda
Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
– Jane Byrne
Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'
– Matt Groening
Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.
– Joel Coen
Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.
– Mitt Romney
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
– Nat King Cole