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Quotes About Education

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
~ Barbra Streisand
Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.
~ Mark Twain
The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.
~ Susan Sontag
My goal is more youth oriented. I'm super big on education, I was in school to be an elementary education teacher so I'm starting to build schools, getting supplies in schools in Nicaragua.
~ Asher Roth
Very few can be trusted with an education.
~ Louise Imogen Guiney
If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.
~ John Tesh
As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.
~ Ann Bridge
Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.
~ Oliver DeMille
An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.
~ Richard Mitchell
Education is the number one priority.
~ Vincent Kartheiser
I definitely had a top-notch education.
~ Paul Giamatti
Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in a section of town that isn't conducive to violence.
~ Chris Rock
Cutting our education budget, that's not a smart choice. That will not help America compete with China.
~ Barack Obama
Reading becomes the fuel for development.
~ Narendra Modi
Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.
~ Jimmy Buffett
There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless.
~ Doc Brown
Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.
~ Michael Moore
Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .
~ Noam Chomsky
I believe in local control of education.
~ Russ Feingold
Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.
~ Condoleezza Rice
I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.
~ Mark Shields
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
~ Charles Babbage
Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
~ Blanche Lincoln
Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.
~ Maya Angelou