Education Quotes

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.

My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.

It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.

Having an education is invaluable.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

There is no education like adversity.

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.