Education Quotes

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.

Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract.

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.