Quotes about: education

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
– Daniel Webster
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.
– Gregory Bateson
Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.
– John Bruton
Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.
– George Osborne
Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.
– Vince Cable
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
– Camille Paglia
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
– Bobby Scott
No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.
– Hilda Solis
No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.
– David Baker
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
– Plato
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
– William Law
Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
– Matthew Simpson
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
– Jet Li
My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.
– Mike Pence
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
– Jillian Bach
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
– Ian Mcewan
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.
– Jennifer Garner
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
– Julie Bowen
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
– Graham Norton
My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.
– Jennifer Garner
My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.
– David Oyelowo
My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
– Debra Messing
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
– Benedict Cumberbatch
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
– John H. Johnson
My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.
– Julie Walters
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
– Twyla Tharp
My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
– Matt Damon
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.
– Sloane Crosley
My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.
– Jennifer Garner
My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
– Adam Carolla
My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
– Jennifer Garner
My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year.
– Mila Kunis
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
– Mark Mothersbaugh
My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.
– Rick Scott
My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.
– Susie Bright
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
– Robert M. Hutchins
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
– Daniel Goleman
My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.
– Spike Lee
My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.
– Lucy Alibar
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
– Clarence Thomas
My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
– Nicholas Negroponte
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
– Kate Atkinson
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
– Baz Luhrmann
My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.
– Hugh Jackman
My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.
– David Brin
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
– Al Pacino
My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.
– Ezra Koenig
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
– Christopher Hitchens
My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
– Ronnie James Dio
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
– Melinda Gates
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
– Antonia Fraser
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
– Billie Joe Armstrong
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
– Roger Bannister
Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
– Mahesh Bhupathi
Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.
– Henry Bonilla
Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.
– Diana Lopez
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
– John le Carre
Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.
– Bjorn Lomborg
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
– Jane Austen
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
– Bertrand Russell
Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
– H. G. Bissinger
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
– Joseph Lancaster
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
– Joseph Lancaster
Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.
– Melissa Bean
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.
– Jonathan Kozol
Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.
– Roland Joffe
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
– Charles Vest
Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?
– Arabella Weir
Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.
– Anthony Weiner
Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
– Daisaku Ikeda
Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
– Gustave Flaubert
Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
– Armstrong Williams
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
– Pearl S. Buck
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
– William Godwin
Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.
– Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.
– John Hersey
Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.
– Richie Sambora
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
– David Amram
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.
– Rutherford B. Hayes
Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.
– Susana Martinez
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
– Henry Adams
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
– Kofi Annan
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
– Barbra Streisand
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
– Edward Thorndike
Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.
– Jonathan Sacks
It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
– Ed Miliband
It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.
– John Keegan
It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.
– Shannon Miller
It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.
– Glenda Jackson
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
– Adam Weishaupt
It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.
– Clyde Tombaugh
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
– Hans-Georg Gadamer
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
– Little Richard
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.
– William J. Clinton
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
– Norman Cousins
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
– Barney Frank
It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
– Charles Babbage
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
– Desmond Tutu