Education Quotes

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.