Education Quotes

There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

Even my going back to school was to inspire young people that it's never too late to education. That's all I can do, and try to be the best father and husband that I can be.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.

When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Higher education is a business that doesn’t know it’s going out of business.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part of life. It's something that you do - like going to your prom.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

If the economy grows enough, fast enough, the tech system should be modernized so that the tax revenues rise fast enough also, and we should put more money in education.

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience

Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.

In Islam, it is not just your right, but your responsibility to get education.

My dream is to empower myself with education, and then it is a weapon.

When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd.

We need human security: food, education, health care for our children.

In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.