Education Quotes

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

William J. Clinton

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

Jonathan Kozol

I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

Danica McKellar

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Julian Bond

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

Clay Aiken

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.

John Grierson

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

Eliza Dushku

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

Carol Burnett

My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

Hannah More

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

Arne Duncan

Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.

Todd English

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Gustave Flaubert

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

Brad Henry

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

John Baldacci

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Bryant H. McGill

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

Lafcadio Hearn

I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

Evel Knievel

They know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams

College-bred is a four-year loaf, using dad's dough, Coming out half-baked, with a lot of crust.

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