Education Quotes

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.

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.

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.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

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.

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.

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.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

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.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

I've got no education.

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

Education is a vacine for violence.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.