Education Quotes

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

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.

One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

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.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

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.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

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.

I sat down in 1989 and I made up my mind at that point that I was going to spend the rest of my life assisting women and youth to gain social and political empowerment through business and education. I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.