Quotes About Education

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful enough to cut growth in half.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.

Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.

I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.

Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.