Quotes About Achievement

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

Education made us what we are.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Education is what allows you to stand out

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

I think perhaps education doesn't do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

I don't care how somebody gets their education, as long as they have one.

An athletic scholarship shouldn't be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

I didn't even complete my University Education