Education Quotes
“We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.”
“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”
-- Aldous Huxley
“When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.”
-- Michael Badnarik
“A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.”
-- Robert M. Hutchins
“In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.”
-- James Payn
“I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.”
-- Mitt Romney
“It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.”
-- Agnes Repplier