Education Quotes

With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

Education is not so important as people think.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

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.