Education Quotes

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.

Plato

Segregation has no place in the education system.

Richard Dawkins

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

Kris Allen

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Bertrand Russell

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

Piers Anthony

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

Arlen Specter

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Jonathan Kozol

What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.

Salman Khan

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Joyce Meyer

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

Tammy Faye Bakker

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

John H. Johnson

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

Benjamin Carson

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

Carol Moseley Braun

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Horace Mann

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

Bo Jackson

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

Jenna Bush

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

Julian Bond