Quotes About Education

Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education.

We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.