Education Quotes

What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

Of course it would make far more sense to invest in education and job creation in poor communities of color, rather than spend billions of dollars caging them and monitoring them upon release.

Investing in girls' education is the very best thing we can do, not just for our daughters and granddaughters, but for their families, their communities, and their countries.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

The best education I've had in my life is to travel.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

We need to have more taxes, not less, and we need the taxes we have, certainly, to provide services - for defense and education and health care. We should not cut money here in order to cut taxes.

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

Jeb Bush is very good on immigration, he's very good on education. He's a smart guy.

If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

My theory on education is... get one.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

Don’t allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don’t have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education.

I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.

Money is not a factor of production. But in order to have access to credit, in order to get money, in order to get an education, you have to pay the banks.

Leadership is not about experience, education or talent. It's about choosing to lead.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.

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

I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education.

Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.