Quotes About Education

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.

Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.

Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life." (Wellesly High School commencement speech, "You Are Not Special", 6-12)

Even if you think you are thinking and acting globally, there is always more to learn and know!

A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.