Education Quotes

“State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.”

-- Arne Duncan

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

-- Albert Einstein

“Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.”

-- Ryan White

“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.”

-- Muhammad Yunus

“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.”

-- Clarence Thomas

“Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.”

-- George Osborne

“Education is for growth and fulfillment.”

-- Tom Robbins

“Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.”

-- Ray Dalio

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

-- Isaac Asimov

“Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.”

-- Barbara Boxer