Education Quotes

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.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.