Education Quotes

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.

As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

It doesn't hurt to get more education.

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Without education, confidence does not come.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

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.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

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

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.