Quotes About Education

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

You think education is something to be done when all else fails?

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

Better untaught than ill-taught.

Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

We have to redesign the finances of the Quebec state to preserve what counts: education, health and families.

The root of democracy is in mass education. This foundation becomes stronger, when the citizens of tomorrow, our children are also educated about the electoral process.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through the history of art but we also went through the art of my contemporaries.