Education Quotes

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

Patrick J. Buchanan

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

Jenny McCarthy

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Woody Allen

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Napoleon Hill

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

Philip Pullman

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Ray Bradbury

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

Joshua Lederberg

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Steve Irwin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

Mark Kennedy

When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.

Omar Bongo

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

Oscar Wilde

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

Oscar Wilde

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

Bobby Scott

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

Bernie Sanders

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Sonia Sotomayor

Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.

Pete Seeger

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

Taylor Caldwell