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 really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.”
-- George J. Mitchell
“Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.”
-- Sidney Blumenthal
“In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.”
-- Scott Walker
“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”
-- Ernest Dimnet
“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.”
-- Carter G. Woodson