Quotes About Education

I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

The most important thing about education is appetite.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

I've had no sexual education, but I have six children.

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

Parents do not own their children. They have no 'natural right' to control their education fully.

The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.

I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance.

When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.

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.

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.