Education Quotes
“Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.”
“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