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.”

-- Al Pacino

“For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.”

-- Michael Caine

“The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.”

-- Noam Chomsky

“I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.”

-- Andrew Cuomo

“I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.”

-- James Dyson

“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.”

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

“Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!”

-- Roger Moore

“The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.”

-- Jodi Rell

“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.”

-- John W. Gardner

“Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.”

-- Rutherford B. Hayes