Education Quotes

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
– Walter Annenberg
In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.
– Russell Means
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
– Mark Twain
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
– Bobby Scott
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
– Marlo Thomas
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
– John Strachan
In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.
– Michael Nutter
In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.
– Mike Rogers
In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.
– Bobby Jindal
In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.
– Eva Longoria
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
– H. G. Bissinger
In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
– Gael Garcia Bernal
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
– Richard Cobden
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.
– Tom Vilsack
In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
– Piers Anthony
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
– James Payn
In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.
– Scott Walker
In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
– Carol Bellamy
In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
– David Miliband
Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.
– Eva Longoria
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.
– Timothy Murphy
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.
– Ric Keller
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
– Mary Astell
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
– Frank Zappa
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
– Nicholas Negroponte
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
– Ray Bradbury
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
– William Glasser
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
– Bo Jackson
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
– Benjamin Carson
If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.
– Jami Gertz
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
– William Jennings Bryan
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
– William Glasser
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
– Patrick J. Kennedy
If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
– Harri Holkeri
If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.
– Stockwell Day
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
– Maynard James Keenan
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
– Samuel Richardson
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
– Jim Rohn
If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
– Clay Aiken
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
– Edmund Barton
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
– Galileo Galilei
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
– Sargent Shriver
If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?
– Estelle Morris
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
– Abu Bakr
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
– Jane Fonda
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
– Plato
I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.
– Ron Silver
I've never been a big believer in formal education.
– Megan Fox
I've got no education.
– Andrea Arnold
I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.
– Johann Lamont
I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
– Loni Anderson
I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.
– Jenny Eclair
I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.
– Marian Wright Edelman
I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.
– Muhammad Yunus
I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
– Sally Kirkland
I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.
– Michele Bachmann
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
– Alice Walker
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
– Stephen Ambrose
I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.
– Tom Sizemore
I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.
– Carol Moseley Braun
I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.
– Kris Allen
I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'
– Samuel L. Jackson
I'm a big believer in education, period.
– Jon Secada
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
– Larry Niven
I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.
– John Madden
I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
– Jim DeMint
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
– Annie Dillard
I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
– Gary Neville
I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.
– Major Owens
I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
– Clay Aiken
I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.
– Josh Gad
I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
– Susan Orlean
I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.
– Amanda Burton
I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.
– Mayer Hawthorne
I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.
– Alexander Wang
I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
– Tom Stoppard
I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.
– Jeb Bush
I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.
– Sophia Bush
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
– Jon Secada
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
– Taylor Caldwell
I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.
– Charles Kennedy
I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.
– Tippi Hedren
I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.
– Michele Bachmann
I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.
– Lisa Loeb
I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.
– Peter Brimelow
I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.
– Evel Knievel
I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
– Wallace Shawn
I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college.
– Debbie Stabenow
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
– Susie Bright
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.
– Alice Englert
I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.
– J. C. Watts
I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.
– Ellen Ochoa
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
– William Glasser
I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.
– James Dyson
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
– William Glasser
I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.
– Amber Tamblyn
I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.
– Isaiah Mustafa
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
– Dean Kamen
I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.
– Julian Bond