Education Quotes
“My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.”
“I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.”
-- George J. Mitchell
“Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.”
-- Sidney Blumenthal
“In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.”
-- Scott Walker
“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”
-- Ernest Dimnet
“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.”
-- Carter G. Woodson