Quotes About Education

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

Those who can't teach - administrate. Those who can't administrate - go into politics.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

I am in politics because I have a strong belief in the equal worth of every child.

Everyone has been to school. Everyone has a sense of classroom dynamics and politics, regardless of subject matter. And if you've lived long enough, everyone hits a big life transition.

Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven.

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

.....science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.