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Quotes About Education

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
~ Margaret Drabble
Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.
~ Pat Paulsen
A good student is one who will teach you something.
~ Unknown
Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.
~ Peter Drucker
If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.
~ Bill Cosby
As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.
~ Walter E. Williams
The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.
~ John Waters
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
~ Nikki Giovanni
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
~ Spike Lee
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
~ David Bailey
The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
~ Terry Eagleton
Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!
~ Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs
The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.
~ Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil
Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.
~ Oliver DeMille
The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.
~ Unknown
The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
~ Michael Gove
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
~ John Cage, M: Writings '67-'72
We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.
~ Mo Brooks
I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.
~ Unknown
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that.
~ Joe Louis Walker
Without Greek studies there is no education.
~ Leo Tolstoy