Quotes About Education

How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.

I mean, people aren't continuing like this and not doing anything because they are evil, or because they don't want to. We aren't destroying the biosphere because we are selfish. We are doing it simply because we are unaware.

At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education.

In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.

I knew how to write like an academic, so I knew how to write academic papers and essays and things. But the things that are great for an essay are unbearable in narrative writing.

The notion that anyone in the 21st century could take seriously the notion that the sun orbits the Earth, or that the Earth is the center of the universe, is almost unbelievable.

Obviously, college was an unbelievable experience.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

School was unbelievably painful. It was five years of being pretty sad.

I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photograph Malala in her classroom in Birmingham.

In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

I'm no financial expert. I scarcely know what a coin is. Ask me to explain what a credit default swap is, and I'll emit an unbroken 10-minute 'um' through the clueless face of a broken puppet. You might as well ask a pantomime horse.

...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.

We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.