Education Quotes
“Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.”
-- Rick Perry
“Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.”
-- Ron Lewis
“Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke
“My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.”
-- Adam Carolla
“In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.”
-- Eva Longoria
“Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.”
-- Arne Duncan
“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”
-- Solomon Ortiz
“The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.”
-- Lucy Powell
“Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.”
-- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
“The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.”
-- Pierre Bourdieu
“Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.”
-- Angela Davis
“I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.”
-- Michele Bachmann
“There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.”
-- Steven Soderbergh
“May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.”
-- Joseph Lancaster
“The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.”
-- Sydney J. Harris
“In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.”
-- Richard Cobden
“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.”
-- Earl Warren