Education Quotes

Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future.

Mari Evans
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Liberty Hyde Bailey
- True
- Purpose
- Sunset

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

Margaret Spellings
- Education
With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.

Fred Hampton
- Important
- Education
There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to focus on education, which was very important in the Soviet Union.

Jan Koum
- Life
- Important
- Focus
My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

George Bernard Shaw
Strength of our culture to some extent has compensated the lack of formal education. That is how people could vote wisely in these massive elections. After all, it was the ordinary, illiterate people who exercised the votes in the general elections we have had. And they seem to have voted with sufficient knowledge of affairs, of their interests, and this is remarkable indeed. But that is no substitute for education, and we have to have a full formal education for all our people and what I find sad is that it is an eminently practicable thing to do; in a matter of 5 years, India could be made literate.

K. R. Narayanan
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

Ric Keller
- Health
- Care
- Immigration