Quotes About Education

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

If you get your education, then you've got your platform set up for you.

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.