Education Quotes

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

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.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.