Education Quotes

“Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.”

-- Ray Dalio

“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.”

-- Alvin Toffler

“I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.”

-- Philip Pullman

“The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.”

-- Jonathan Sacks

“I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.”

-- William Glasser

“When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.”

-- Richard Dreyfuss

“I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.”

-- Danica McKellar

“The willingness to learn new skills is very high.”

-- Angela Merkel

“Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.”

-- Paul Erdos

“Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.”

-- Arne Duncan