Education Quotes

“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

“Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.”

-- Christopher Dodd

“Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.”

-- Marc Andreessen

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

-- William Butler Yeats

“I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.”

-- Arthur Hailey

“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.”

-- Maria Montessori

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”

-- Robert E. Lee

“My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.”

-- Julie Walters

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

-- Derek Bok

“Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.”

-- Arlen Specter