Education Quotes

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

I give the children education.

In 1998 I invested in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Uni and subsequently put more capital into enterprise education to try and help change the culture.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.