Education Quotes

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.