Education Quotes

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.

High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.

We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'