Education Quotes

“If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'”

-- Benjamin Carson

“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