Quotes About Education

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn't know what words were.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.

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

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

The real safeguard of democracy is education.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.