Education Quotes

The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

If you get your education, then you've got your platform set up for you.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

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

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

A form of self-delusion.

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.

Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

You have to be someone.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is potentially school. And even I can pass that.

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.