Quotes About Education

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.

Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children.

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary to what the government had planned to do.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us.

No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.

That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there.

The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan!

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.