Quotes About Education

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.

The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

The chaotic theory of education is that you go to college, earn a degree and then that degree may be used in something completely different. It's about achieving the goal first.

The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you know?

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

It's important for us to fight for certain changes that need to happen. And one of those issues that I really care about is education. But also another one is incarceration.

Nature is stronger than education.