Education Quotes

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.

We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.