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

“The value of a good education has never left me.”

-- Michelle Pfeiffer

“Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.”

-- John Dewey

“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

“All real education is the architecture of the soul.”

-- William Bennett

“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

“Education is the movement from darkness to light.”

-- Allan Bloom