Quotes About Education

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

Literacy in itself is no education.

Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

Higher education is a business that doesn't know it's going out of business.

We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

We wouldn't need any job training centers if our education was working in the first place.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.