Education Quotes

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

Graham Norton

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Mahatma Gandhi

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Arlen Specter

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabindranath Tagore

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

John W. Gardner

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

Marian Wright Edelman

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

Alexander Wang

In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.

Mike Rogers

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Theodore Roosevelt

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

Major Owens

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Mark Twain

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Victor Hugo

Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.

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Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key.

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Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

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Education is not received. It is achieved.

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If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?

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Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

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