Education Quotes

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.

We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.