Education Quotes

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.

The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

Good teaching comes from good people.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children.

Just putting a computer in front of a student doesn't make education better.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that.

My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!'

This week, Georgia's board of education approved a plan that allows teachers to keep using the word Evolution when teaching biology. Though, as a compromise, dinosaurs are now called Jesus Horses.

No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

I would get rid of the Department of Education. I would get rid of the state departments of education and let the local people control the schools.

All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's why I'm a strong proponent of general education -- because I saw how it opened my eyes.

We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

Patiently enduring some things is part of our mortal education.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.