Education Quotes

• If you can make finance more functional, make it a tiny percent better, you create a great deal of resources, which you can use for other things like education and healthcare.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Great
  • Education
  • Health care

• Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.

  

  Van Jones
  • School
  • High
  • Mean

• The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Children
  • Today
  • Value

• Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

  

  Aristotle
  • Know
  • Demand
  • Demonstration

• I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall to work on early childhood education. I really feel that's the most important place to put the arts.

  

  Agnes Gund
  • Work
  • Important
  • Childhood

• Shortchanging vital investments in education and training, medical care and community development means that kids in Connecticut and across the country will suffer at school, families will have to scrape by to own homes and doctors and hospitals may have to think twice before providing care to senior citizens.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Country
  • School
  • May

• Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Education
  • Violence
  • Poverty

• The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with its systematic formulas, and away goes the individual, hurtling through space into that hateful oblivion of mediocrity. We are pruned into stumps, one resembling another, without character or grace.

  

  N. C. Wyeth
  • Work
  • Children
  • Character

• When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Life
  • School
  • Graduates

• We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Great
  • Education
  • Effort

• I thought, 'Let's make it a check list. What if I got my education even though I lost my mother, even though my dad is in a shelter?' and looking at these things as hurdles to go over. I could inspire myself.

  

  Liz Murray
  • Mother
  • Lost
  • Dad

• During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Time
  • Black
  • Progress

• Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • War
  • Quality
  • Poverty

• I'm a big believer in education, period.

  

  Jon Secada
  • Education
  • Period

• Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

  

  Craig T. Nelson
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Time
  • Past
  • Change

• I'm not cerebral in any way. Education, for me, was a nightmare. You put someone talking in front of me, and I cannot engage with that. I think that's why I'm an actor; if I can physically be in it, I get it.

  

  Jodie Whittaker
  • Why
  • Education

• Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Education
  • Accomplishment

• Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.

  

  Nonie Darwish
  • Culture
  • Blessed
  • Jewish

• It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

  

  Aristotle
  • Parents
  • Noble
  • Useful

• Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.

  

  Hasso Plattner
  • Career
  • Germany
  • Public university

• To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Education
  • Deep

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