Education Quotes

• Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education, housing, and health care.

  

  George Packer
  • Power
  • Education
  • Health

• I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Family
  • Dad
  • College

• Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Training
  • Air Force
  • Jazz Musician

• Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.

  

  Ernest L. Boyer
  • Education
  • Level
  • Relates

• American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

  

  Lincoln Chafee
  • World
  • American
  • Wonder

• During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

  

  Anita Hill
  • Relationship
  • Positive
  • Period

• It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

  

  Luc Montagnier
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Education

• Most high governmental officials who speak of education policy seem to conceive of education in this light - as a way to ensure economic competitiveness and continued economic growth. I strongly disagree with this approach.

  

  Derek Bok
  • High
  • Light
  • Growth

• Being in a field like healthcare, for me, as someone who is basically on a mission to make a global impact in terms of affordable access to healthcare, I am very, very concerned about the fact that there are a large number of people in this world who need to have some access to basic rights, whether it is in education or healthcare.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • People
  • World
  • Health care

• It's now up to the states to figure out how they implement that definition of a well-rounded education, in other words, where they spend federal funds. The new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, has suggestions like computer science, health, foreign language and geography. So there's no guarantee the arts will now flourish. Arts advocates are ready to help states and school districts with their plans.

  

  Elizabeth Blair Lee
  • Science
  • Plans
  • Student

• Access to sports is an important part of a well-rounded education, and it takes committed communities and companies like Dick's to make a real difference in kids' lives.

  

  Charles Best
  • Important
  • Real
  • Kids

• Education is one of the subjects which most essentially require to be considered by various minds, and from a variety of points of view. For, of all many-sided subjects, it is the one which has the greatest number of sides.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Education
  • Considered
  • Points of View

• How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?

  

  John Tillotson
  • World
  • Men
  • Book

• The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

  

  John Cotton Dana
  • Firsts
  • Library
  • Public

• My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.

  

  Cardale Jones
  • Education
  • Ability
  • Athletic

• But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

  

  Jeffrey Archer
  • Education

• There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

  

  David Puttnam
  • Wisdom
  • Advice
  • Ignore

• The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Country
  • College

• In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

  

  John Naisbitt
  • People
  • Society
  • Growing

• Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

  

  Diogenes
  • Education
  • Comfort
  • Ornament

• There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Book
  • Education
  • Natural

• It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • College
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Education

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