Quotes About Education

The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state.

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.