1,009 Quotes Regarding Education


Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.
Nicholas Negroponte

All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.
John Walters

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

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
John Strachan

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
Dave Van Ronk

I believe in local control of education.
Russ Feingold

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.
Arthur Hailey

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Nancy Astor

President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.
Cristina Saralegui

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
Bill Richardson

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.
Bill Richardson

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
Yakov Smirnoff

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

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

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
Robert M. Hutchins

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

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

I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. 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.
Amanda Burton

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Robert M. Hutchins

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.
Eva Longoria