Education Quotes

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

Loretta Young

Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

Sylvia Porter

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

Reed Hastings

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert G. Ingersoll

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

Harri Holkeri

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

John Madden

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Ralph Ellison

Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Louis L'Amour

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

Aristotle

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

Angela Bassett

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

Adam Carolla

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

William Godwin

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

Martin H. Fischer

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.

Mahatma Gandhi

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

Kamisese Mara