Quotes about: education

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.
– Estelle Morris
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
– Maria Montessori
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
– Maria Montessori
We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
– Barack Obama
We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.
– Roy Romer
We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.
– Donald Evans
We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
– Dan Lipinski
We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.
– Jennifer Garner
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
– Julian Bond
Very likely education does not make very much difference.
– Gertrude Stein
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
– Sonia Sotomayor
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
– Marian Wright Edelman
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
– Rutherford B. Hayes
Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
– Desmond Tutu
Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.
– Michael Gove
Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.
– Bobby Scott
Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
– Simon van der Meer
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
– Philip Pullman
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.
– Yvon Chouinard
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
– Thomas Sowell
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.
– Mark Kennedy
Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.
– Barbara Boxer
Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
– Marian Wright Edelman
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
– Bobby Scott
Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.
– Kerry Washington
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
– Aleister Crowley
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
– Thomas Jefferson
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
– Muriel Spark
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
– Jonathan Sacks
To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
– John Dickey
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
– William Glasser
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
– Jennifer Granholm
To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.
– Melanie Griffith
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.
– Thomas Bulfinch
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
– Wynton Marsalis
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
– Jenny McCarthy
This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
– Ann Bancroft
This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.
– Karen Mills
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
– William Glasser
This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.
– Michael N. Castle
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
– Carter G. Woodson
They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.
– Michael N. Castle
They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
– Dave Van Ronk
These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.
– Kevin Rudd
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
– Will Rogers
There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.
– Peter Brimelow
There's my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
– Howard Aiken
There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.
– David Puttnam
There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.
– Julie Walters
There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
– Anne Campbell
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
– Toni Morrison
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
– David Hume
There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.
– Nikki Haley
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
– David Puttnam
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
– Salma Hayek
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.
– Steven Soderbergh
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
– Sachin Tendulkar
There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
– will.i.am
There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.
– Laura San Giacomo
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
– Hillary Clinton
The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
– Jack Kemp
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
– John Sterling
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
– Jonathan Sacks
The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
– Hamid Karzai
The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
– Minoru Yamasaki
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
– Plutarch
The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.
– John Grierson
The value of a good education has never left me.
– Michelle Pfeiffer
The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
– Gavin Newsom
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
– Mortimer Adler
The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
– Gary Locke
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
– Michelle Obama
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
– David Bailey
The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
– Lucy Powell
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
– Bryant McGill
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
– Carter G. Woodson
The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.
– Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.
– Joseph Lancaster
The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
– John Conyers
The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
– Valerie Jarrett
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 of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.
– Ruben Hinojosa
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 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