Education Quotes
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My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.
Jim Crace
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There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.
Peter Orszag
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There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens
David J. Skorton
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We must provide an improved early education system so that all students have the opportunity to learn and reach their full potential.
Marc Veasey
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.
Eli Broad
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The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.
Andy Ogle
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An almost seismic sense of expectation emanates from a college campus. That is the true elixir of youth: the grand, the glorious, the magnificent hopes and dreams because all things - all things - are yet possible.
Carolyn Hart
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Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.
Paul Farmer
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Get an education because no one can take that away from you.
Nomar Garciaparra
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Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.
Nicholas Negroponte
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In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
Bill Clinton
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To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
Jennifer Granholm
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Football has always been a stepping stone for my education.
Cardale Jones
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I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if you're going to get the return. There's no doubt about that. It's a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.
Jon Tester
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I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
Robin Williams
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My previous education had been, in a certain sense, already a course of Benthamism. The Benthamic standard of 'the greatest happiness' was that which I had always been taught to apply.
John Stuart Mill
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Higher education is an advantage, no longer a guarantee.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.
Jerry Della Femina
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In my education, as in that of everyone, the moral influences, which are so much more important than all others, are also the most complicated, and the most difficult to specify with any approach to completeness.
John Stuart Mill
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Success or failure in minority education means success or failure for the U.S.
Chuck Thompson
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I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.
Jon Huertas
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I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.
David Gordon Green