Education Quotes

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

Education without execution is extinction

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

I dreamt of a country where education would prevail.

Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS

Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

Education is the best provision for old age.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

Learn to be positive, it's your only chance.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

I went from a D all the way to an A plus, I tell you prayer changes things.

Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.