Quotes About Education

That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Experience is a great teacher.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

I know a great country that needs to be rebuilt in terms of roads, bridges, schools. That is called the United States of America.

All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?

Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but it's an excellent piece of advice.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.