Education Quotes

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.

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.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.

Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.

When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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.

It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

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.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.