Education Quotes

We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.

Education and prevention are not enough when there is a culture of fraud.

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

"True expertise is the most potent form of authority."

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

Education is the number one priority.

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

We live in the most amazing period in human history. We can have unlimited energy, unlimited food, provide education for everyone, clean water, all the things that have held mankind back.

I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

We are here for an education.

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.

I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents No. 1 priority is the kids education.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.

I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education - but, um, not a dime.

Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.

SUNY gives you a world-class education.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

Education is not filling

The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Education is not a privilege, it is a right!

An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.

Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.

Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay. Education provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income and an enhanced quality of life.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.