Education Quotes

I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.

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

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

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

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

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.