99 Education Quotes

1.  The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. Gavin Newsom
2. Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. John Ruskin
3. We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Earl Warren
4. Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. Kathleen Blanco
5. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. B. F. Skinner
6. I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures. Tippi Hedren
7. Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. Kent Conrad
8. 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
9. Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class. Michelle Williams
10. It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. Jean Piaget
11. Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. Isaac Asimov
12. I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool. Leon Spinks
13. I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton. Wallace Shawn
14. I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months. Estelle Morris
15. Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. Robert M. Hutchins
16. The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
17. It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. John F. Kennedy
18. If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? Virginia Woolf
19. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
20. I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. Sparky Anderson
21. I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed. Eva Longoria
22. To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
23. One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries. Harri Holkeri
24. The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers
25. You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education. Donna Shalala
26. Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. Joseph Stalin
27. Education is the best economic policy there is. Tony Blair
28. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
29. The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. William James
30. It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. Norman Cousins
31. The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. John Dewey
32. Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination. Mary Harris Jones
33. This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return. Ann Bancroft
34. Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. Barack Obama
35. Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard. Luis Fortuno
36. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll
37. In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. Michel de Montaigne
38. I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. William Morris
39. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca
40. This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy. Karen Mills
41. When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus
42. As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. Dee Dee Myers
43. Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France
44. The formal education that I received made little sense to me. Twyla Tharp
45. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C. S. Lewis
46. The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society. Gaston Caperton
47. Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Mark Twain
48. 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
49. You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education. Walter Isaacson
50. Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. Solomon Ortiz
51. To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. William Glasser
52. Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years. Arne Duncan
53. Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market. Janet Napolitano
54. As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community. Ed Pastor
55. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes
56. An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. Russell Baker
57. The mere imparting of information is not education. Carter G. Woodson
58. You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine. Cory Booker
59. A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. Theodore Roosevelt
60. See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college. Michelle Obama
61. I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia. Haile Gebrselassie
62. When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues. Ai Weiwei
63. Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Alexander Pope
64. What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience. Salman Khan
65. My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back. Julie Walters
66. My education and background thoroughly inform my writing. David Brin
67. My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents. Jennifer Garner
68. If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education. Jane Fonda
69. To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Aleister Crowley
70. If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. Jim Rohn
71. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active. Amanda Burton
72. In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction. Richard Cobden
73. 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
74. When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins. Michelle Bachelet
75. Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. Daniel J. Boorstin
76. Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people? Beah Richards
77. I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society. Lech Walesa
78. At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. Estelle Morris
79. The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood. Dennis Miller
80. All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts. John Walters
81. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost
82. In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. Friedrich Nietzsche
83. As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. Karl Rove
84. Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions. Phyllis Schlafly
85. Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten. Robert. L. Ehrlich
86. For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with. King Abdullah II
87. 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
88. But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students. Roy Barnes
89. The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. Gilbert K. Chesterton
90. Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted. Alexis Herman
91. Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. Robert Frost
92. Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems. Roy Barnes
93. The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt
94. America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. Will Rogers
95. Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound
96. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge
97. I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. William Glasser
98. We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road. Nicholas Negroponte
99. It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual. Allen Klein