Education Quotes

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

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The men -- the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

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Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

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You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

Walter Isaacson

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

Anne Sullivan Macy

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

Mary Harris Jones

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

John Agyekum Kufuor

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

Roy Barnes

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Booker T. Washington

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Simone Weil

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Francis Bacon

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

William Glasser

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

Jenna Bush

There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.

Nikki Haley

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Jeffrey Archer

Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.

Eliza Cook

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

Suze Orman

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

Ernest Istook