Quotes About Education

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Organization and education, when they interact with each other, they strengthen each other, they are mutually supportive.

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

The communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

School is one thing. Education is another. The two don't always overlap. Whether you're in school or not, it's always your job to get yourself an education.

Patiently enduring some things is part of our mortal education.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

Investing in girls' education is the very best thing we can do, not just for our daughters and granddaughters, but for their families, their communities, and their countries.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

My education was an education by movies.

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.