Education Quotes

I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

Tippi Hedren

States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.

Anna Lindh

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

Michael N. Castle

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

Kent McCord

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

Glenda Jackson

All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.

Bobby Vinton

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

Matt Damon

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere.

Charles Dickens

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

C.S. Lewis

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

Al Gore

I'm a big believer in education, period.

Jon Secada

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Plato

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

Wilma Mankiller

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Noam Chomsky

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

Bill Richardson

Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

Aldous Huxley