Education Quotes

• I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Firsts
  • Faculty
  • Boston

• I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • World
  • Why
  • Education

• Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Knowledge
  • Ability
  • Accumulation

• One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Life
  • Education
  • Goals

• I was honored to wear 'Arizona' across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the great tradition of Wildcat softball. To have my jersey number retired was the ultimate compliment.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Great
  • Blessed
  • Softball

• When I see the sort of mindless tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts to education, I just think we've got it exactly backward in this country.

  

  Bill Foster
  • Country
  • Education

• Just as the traditional taxi system revolted against ride sharing, so too does the education establishment feel threatened by the rise of school choice.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • School
  • Education

• Japan and Hawaii already have strong economic, cultural and education ties, and we intend to build upon those ties and relationships as we look toward the future.

  

  David Ige
  • Future
  • Strong
  • Education

• A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Library
  • Rooms
  • Earnest

• Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.

  

  Dwight Henry
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.

  

  Jerome Isaac Friedman
  • Great
  • Education
  • Chicago

• Segregation. There was another one. America sees this now but it took a civil rights movement to betray their age. And 50 years ago the U.S. Supreme Court betrayed the age May 17, 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education came down and put the lie to the idea that separate can ever really be equal. Amen to that.

  

  Bono U2
  • May
  • America
  • Age

• Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Great
  • History
  • Learning

• People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Education

• The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Good
  • Education
  • Wife

• You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Brilliant
  • Operation

• Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Education
  • College

• Because of outdated regulations, workers in different types of contract often have unequal access to healthcare, pensions, education, and training, as well as other social benefits. This has to change for countries to remain competitive and for our businesses and workers to survive in the digital age.

  

  Alain Dehaze
  • Different
  • Age
  • Training

• I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

  

  Barack Obama, Sr.
  • Education
  • I Think
  • Sweat

• The difficulty is, Pell Grants are an attempt to do the right thing, and that is to give the low-income student an opportunity to access higher education, and that's a good thing. And welfare was an attempt to help those most in need. The difficulty is, often times a program is so successful that it grows and grows and grows and grows.

  

  Denny Rehberg
  • Good
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Struggle

• I support the elimination and defunding of all agencies like the Education and Energy Departments because they fall outside of the framework of the Constitution.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • Energy
  • Support
  • Fall

• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

  

  Plutarch
  • Good
  • Spring
  • Honesty

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