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Quotes About Education

I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.
~ Bunker Roy
Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.
~ E. F. Schumacher
I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.
~ Miriam
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
~ James Rowland Angell
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
~ George Santayana
Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
~ Jeph Jacques
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.
~ Kinky Friedman
In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.
~ John Carroll
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
~ Albert Einstein
It is my belief that if you have children and you serve overseas, that if you should die, your children should get a free education.
~ Chris Cagle
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
~ Al Gore
Machida is not a bad guy; he's a victim of the brazilian education system. There are better ways to get electrolytes than drinking piss.
~ Chael Sonnen
Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.
~ Bob Herbert
To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.
~ Arne Duncan
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
~ Edmund Burke
The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
~ Terry Pratchett
Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.
~ Charles E. McKenzie
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
~ Dennis Prager
I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn
~ Patty Murray
The only way to be totally free is through education.
~ Jose Marti
Gujarat is the first state in the country where not even a single student is devoid of insurance cover.
~ Narendra Modi
In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
~ Barack Obama
I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.
~ Ernest L. Boyer