Category: Quotes About Education

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. -Gustave Flaubert

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime. -Jonathan Kozol

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me. -Little Richard

I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward. -Joichi Ito

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…

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing. -Steve Irwin

Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education. -Diana Lopez

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. -Harvey S. Firestone

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head. -Agnes de Mille

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women. -Julie Walters

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. -Malcolm X

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. -Bernie Sanders

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

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success. -Jami Gertz

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. -Maya Angelou

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. -Evan Esar

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. -Stockwell Day

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

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. -Mikhail Baryshnikov

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment. -Twyla Tharp

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero…