Education Quotes
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Love seems like such a simple thing to ask for. Such a basic right. It takes no skill, no experience, no money, no education, nothing – it can happen to anyone.
But it doesn't happen to everyone.
Even though everyone, deep down, wants it.
Anyway, I do.
Beth Harbison
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If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.
Peter Thiel
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I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.
Moses Hadas
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By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.
Bill Gates
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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Ernest Dimnet
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The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
Ken Robinson
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I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
Shirley Hufstedler
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As the final weeks of my schooling draw to a close and exams loom, I find myself reflecting on the past six years of my secondary education only to realise that many questions are still unanswered. How have I been shaped by my learning experiences? What skills have I developed that are valuable and transferable in the workplace?
Alexandra Adornetto
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I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.
Nat Hentoff
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I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.
Isaiah Mustafa
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Rod had signed on the dotted line mostly because he’d been promised a free college education. But his commitment to the armed forces had quickly evolved into much more than that. In the navy, he’d found a home, friends who were more like brothers, purpose in what he did, some self-esteem. But it hadn’t been an easy road.
Brenda Novak
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The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.
Joshua Jackson
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I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.
Susana Martinez
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A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.
Raymond Williams
