Education Quotes
“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.”
“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.”
-- Gwendolyn Brooks
“I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.”
-- Kent McCord
“And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.”
-- Terrence Howard
“Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.”
-- Donna Shalala
“I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.”
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.”
-- Bobby Scott