Education Quotes

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

Bill Frist

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Woody Allen

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.

Renee Fleming

I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Education is not so important as people think.

Elizabeth Bowen

Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

Alexis Herman

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

Harri Holkeri

My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.

Mike Pence

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Oscar Wilde

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Bill Frist

If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves.

C.S. Lewis

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

Camille Anna Paglia

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

Camille Anna Paglia

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

Plato

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Terry Pratchett

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

Abraham Lincoln

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.

Anna Friel

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

Gwendolyn Brooks