Education Quotes
“My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.”
“I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!”
-- Philip Pullman
“My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.”
-- Matt Damon
“You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.”
-- Emeril Lagasse
“Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.”
-- John O. Brennan
“Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.”
-- Solomon Ortiz