Education Quotes

As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.

I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

Responsibility educates.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

I got an early education from television.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.