Education Quotes

Learn to think continentally.

Alexander Hamilton

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Mahesh Bhupathi

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Michael Moore

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Karl Kraus

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Donna Brazile

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

Walter Annenberg

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

W. Somerset Maugham

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Sylvia Plath

Few things are as essential as education.

Walter Annenberg

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.

Wallace Shawn

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.

Bruce Springsteen

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Carter G. Woodson

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe in local control of education.

Russ Feingold

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

Aldo Leopold

In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.

Victor Hugo

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Bill Cosby