Education Quotes
“I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.”
“There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.”
-- Sachin Tendulkar
“The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.”
-- Dennis Miller
“It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.”
-- Kathleen Turner
“If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.”
-- Maynard James Keenan
“I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.”
-- Clay Aiken
“I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.”
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov