Quotes About Education

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

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

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

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm going to do if I grow up".

The importance of education plays a huge role.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.