Education Quotes

We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education.

Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.

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

The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just "virtual reality".

I'm a big believer in education, period.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

Art is the more spiritual side of education that really does saves lives and makes amazing individuals.

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.

Education will open doors where none seem to exist.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.

The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.

The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

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.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

There was a long time I had no job security, no options and no education.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.

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.

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.