Education Quotes

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

This is not a time for America to 'believe in magic.' This is a time to drive education forward. This is a time to drive the economy forward. This is a time to drive America forward. We must do it together. And we must re-elect Barack Obama as President of the United States.

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it.