1,009 Quotes Regarding Education


I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.
Jenny Eclair

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
Graham Norton

Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.
Todd English

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.
Scott Walker

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

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.
Clay Aiken

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
Marian Wright Edelman

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.
Marian Wright Edelman

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.
John Jay Hooker

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

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
Chris Van Hollen

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

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
Jeffrey Archer

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
George Will

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
Edsger Dijkstra

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

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
Warren Farrell

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.
Barbara Boxer

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
Michael Morpurgo