Education Quotes

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Carol Moseley Braun
'Just as work is the curse of the drinking classes of this country,' Wilde said laughing, 'so education is the curse of the acting classes.'

Frank Harris
- Work
- Country
- Drinking

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.

Bill Owens
- Education
- College
I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.

Brandon Stanton
It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus
- Education
I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.

Lily King
If you ask any of my kids today what their most important experience was in their education, they would say it was the travel and the ability to see and be in other cultures.

Betsy DeVos
Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged faith-based education, and therefore given a megaphone to religious voices and fundamentalists.

Anthony Clifford Grayling
- Women
- Faith
- Christian