Quotes About Education

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

Education should serve to enlarge the vision and broaden the outlook of the people.

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Without education, confidence does not come.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

An investment in education always pays the highest returns.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. "Teaching to the middle" is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.