1,009 Quotes Regarding Education


Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.
Jonathan Kozol

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Anne Sullivan

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles Kettering

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
Anne Sullivan Macy

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
David Suzuki

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
Cate Blanchett

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
Marc Andreessen

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

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
Loretta Young

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
Dee Dee Myers

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
Billy Sunday

By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
John Dryden

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.
James Baldwin

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
Thomas Frank

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.
Peter Singer

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
David Rockefeller

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
Milton Sapirstein

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
Dennis Prager

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.
Loretta Lynn