Education Quotes
- Page 2This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.
Bill Owens
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
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
We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance.
John Larson
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
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
Billie Joe Armstrong
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
Arthur Boyd
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
Alphonso Jackson
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington
There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
Howard Aiken
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou
This is not a time for America to 'believe in magic.' This is a time to drive education forward. This is a time to drive the economy forward. This is a time to drive America forward. We must do it together. And we must re-elect Barack Obama as President of the United States.
Jim Hunt
Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
Blanche Lincoln
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.
Leonard Boswell
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
Arlen Specter
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
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
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
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
John F. Kennedy
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
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
Joe Baca
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
Noam Chomsky
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin