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

“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