Education Quotes

I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.

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.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

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.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.