Education Quotes

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract.

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Education, for me, has helped me in my music.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.