Education Quotes
“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
-- John Ruskin
“There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.”
-- Anne Campbell
“During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.”
-- Jonathan Kozol
“The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.”
-- Liberty Hyde Bailey
“Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.”
-- Wynton Marsalis
“I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.”
-- Clay Aiken
“No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.”
-- Brad Henry
“Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.”
-- William Godwin
“A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.”
-- Cat Cora
“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”
-- Benjamin Disraeli
“Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.”
-- Vince Cable
“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
-- Bertrand Russell