Quotes about: education

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
– Benjamin Carson
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
– Kofi Annan
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
– Anne Sullivan Macy
Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.
– Bev Perdue
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
– David Suzuki
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
– Ernest Istook
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
– Garrett Hardin
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
– Paul Wellstone
Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.
– Eliza Dushku
During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.
– Anita Hill
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
– Jonathan Kozol
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
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
– Steven Spielberg
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
– Daisaku Ikeda
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.
– Michael N. Castle
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
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
– Barack Obama
Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.
– Ray Dalio
Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
– Donna Brazile
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
– Joe Baca
Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
– Michael Moore
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
By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.
– Dan Lipinski
By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.
– Michael N. Castle
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
– Stuart Pearce
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
– Jeffrey Archer
But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.
– Roy Barnes
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
But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
– Mark Kennedy
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
– Polly Toynbee
But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.
– Kathy Ireland
But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
– Jack Dee
Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.
– Simon Mainwaring
Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
– Beah Richards
Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.
– James Van Der Beek
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
– Ryan White
Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.
– Meg Whitman
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
– Booker T. Washington
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
– Estelle Morris
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
– William John Wills
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
– Dee Dee Myers
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 we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.
– will.i.am
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
– William Godwin
As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
– Naguib Mahfouz
As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.
– Julian Bond
As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.
– Anna Friel
As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
– Sargent Shriver
As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
– Joe Baca
As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.
– Mark Kennedy
As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.
– Sue Kelly
As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.
– Gwen Moore
As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
– Ed Pastor
Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
– James Dyson
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
– Lee Iacocca
Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.
– Jonathan Kozol
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
– Marshall McLuhan
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
– William Hazlitt
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
– Alan K. Simpson
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?
– Frederic Bastiat
And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
– Sam Donaldson
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
– Jon Secada
And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.
– Terrence Howard
And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.
– Andre Braugher
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
And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
– Wavy Gravy
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
– Charles Stanley
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
– Anatole France
An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
– Francois Hollande
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
– Gavin Newsom
Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.
– Sue Johanson
America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
– Fareed Zakaria
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
– Ed Markey
All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.
– John Walters
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
– William Bennett
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
– Emma Goldman
All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
– Bobby Vinton
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
After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.
– Michael N. Castle
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
– Michael Morpurgo
Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.
– Seth Graham-Smith
About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.
– Reed Hastings
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
– Gwendolyn Brooks
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
– Joseph Lancaster
A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.
– Arne Duncan
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.
– Allen West
A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.
– Cat Cora
A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.
– Pierre Salinger
A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.
– Michael Morpurgo
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
– Mikhail Baryshnikov
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
– Phillip E. Johnson
A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.
– Cornel West
'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
– Alexander Pope
'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.
– Matt LeBlanc