Quotes About Education

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

I didn't completed my University Education

I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.

Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education.

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

I really got the best of education , and arts and music and summer camp. I had it great.

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.