Education Quotes

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Will Rogers

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Gertrude Stein

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Scott Walker

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Ellen Key

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

Thad Cochran

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

Carol Bellamy

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

Mark Twain, notebook, 1908

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.

Joschka Fischer

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Carl Sagan

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'

David Guetta

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

John Conyers

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

Alice Duer Miller

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

John Locke

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

William Glasser

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Rita Mae Brown

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

Sachin Tendulkar