Education Quotes
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
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My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
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The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
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There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
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It is unwise to make education too cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must always have a certain price on it; even as the very process of learning itself must always require individual effort and initiative.
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We have a lot of entitlement programs in this country, and we've seen how much they cost us on the back end when people don't have the education they need. I say let's make this investment on the front end. I think it'll be better for the individual and better for our state in the long term.
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I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.
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There are not enough philanthropic dollars in America to fund what is currently the need in education.
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I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.
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If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.
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It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.
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In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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One of my secret nerdy things is that I love education.
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I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
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Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.
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Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
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Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
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You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.
