Education Quotes
“As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.”
-- Ed Pastor
“Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.”
-- Todd English
“There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.”
-- Marvin Hamlisch
“Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.”
-- John Bruton
“You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.”
-- Carol Burnett
“Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.”
-- Major Owens
“Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.”
-- William Glasser
“Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.”
-- James Hillman
“Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.”
-- Edward Thorndike
“Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.”
-- Benjamin Carson
“We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.”
-- Sandra Day O'Connor
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.”
-- Thomas Moore
“If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.”
-- Nicholas Negroponte
“The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.”
-- John Conyers
“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”
-- Ray Bradbury