Quotes About Education

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

Of course their [Cuba's] economy is terrible, but they have Health Care and education.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way.

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.

I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn't encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.