Quotes About Education

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

As education widens, so does the marvellous vision of the universe widen, and the idea of God takes a more noble and mighty shape.

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

My father believed just as strongly in training our brains. After Mass on Sunday, he'd take us on a family outing: visiting another village, maybe, or seeing a play, or watching him perform with the police band. Then in the evening we had to write a report on our activities, ten pages at least. He'd hand back our papers with red ink scribbled all over them, and if we had spelled a word wrong, we had to copy it fifty times over. I loved my father and really wanted to be like him.

No matter what you do in life, you have to have a business mind and educate yourself about money.

Wie van jullie is aan de pil, lieve kinderen? Hand opsteken. Wie van jullie heeft een geslachtsziekte, lieve kinderen? Hand opsteken. Wie van jullie is vandaag op het schoolplein in de reet geneukt, lieve kinderen? Hand opsteken.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

I'm not talking about YOUR book now, but look at how many books have already been written about the Holocaust. What's the point? People haven't changed... Maybe they need a newer, bigger Holocaust.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.