Quotes About Education

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.