Quotes About Education

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.

I'd like to provide an SAT word in everything I do.

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his life's work.

If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.

I specially want to work for the poor children and want to provide them with education.

As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help keep my children - all people - safe, even if I don't want them to engage in the behavior.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.

Any man of good sense should never have his children taught to be unusually clever.

ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.

We class schools, you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School, Good School, and School. Frankly, said Mr Levy, School is pretty bad...

trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn't know existed.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason which he is anxious to conceal.

That's the public school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

For example, the villagers in Los Molinas did not understand germ theory, which the health worker tried to explain to them as a reason for boiling their drinking water.

Makes sense, doesn't it?  They're investing a lot in their students.

No, but–" There are no 'buts' here, Miss Cleary.  If you are to remain a lab assistant here – in fact, if you are to remain a student at this institution – you will follow the rules, or you will be out of here faster than you can blink your baby blue eyes.

Until the great mobs could be educated into a moral sense, someone must cry: Thou shalt not!

They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle.

Doctor Dougall was wrong. It was tempermentally impossible for Amory to get the best marks in school.

He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxord,' or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before.