Education Quotes

Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

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.

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

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.