Education Quotes

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun.

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.

It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

I would do away with Education, Commerce, and let's see - the third one I can't. I can't. Oops.

That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.

Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.

I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.

How was I gonna get an education, sitting right back of Bobby Ann Mason?

Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy you to give them an education.

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

Education is the apprenticeship of life

My education was an education by movies.

Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.

Flowers are an education in a vase.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.

Your college education is a key moment in life.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.

For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.

People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.

I try to find more education in the sport while helping people who are trying to be better at whatever they are trying to achieve. That is probably the thing I love most about coaching.

The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

Education is very important to my parents and to me.

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.

We wouldn't need any job training centers if our education was working in the first place.

The communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy.

My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education."

I believe in local control of education.

I didn't go to film school. I just kept doing videos and whatever. So I guess I learned my education from just experience. Figuring out what worked and what didn't work.