Education Quotes

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.