Quotes About Education

I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

Get an education because no one can take that away from you.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.

I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

I have an education, I went to college, you know?

Right now, we happen to be in a general period of regression, not just in education. A lot of what's happening is sort of backlash to the 60s; the 60s were a democratizing period.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

We have to face up to systemic racism. We see it in jobs, we see it in education, we see it in housing. But let's be really clear; it's a big part of what we're facing in the criminal justice system.

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.