Education Quotes

• My mother would have enjoyed the idea that her name was being used to build bridges. She cared a great deal and was very thoughtful and passionate about education and young women.

  

  Maya Soetoro-Ng
  • Great
  • Women
  • She

• Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law enforcement, and education system, and so on.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • Different
  • Law
  • Poverty

• Those life experiences that helped shaped my political beliefs are with me in every position I take and every vote that I cast - whether it be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, or improving our nation's education system.

  

  Mark Takano
  • Life
  • Political
  • Immigration

• We speak glibly of conservation education, but what do we mean by it? If we mean indoctrination, then let us be reminded that it is just as easy to indoctrinate with fallacies as with facts. If we mean to teach the capacity for independent judgement, then I am appalled by the magnitude of the task.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Education
  • Independent

• If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

  

  Plato
  • Education
  • Ask
  • Good Men

• I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a word. I have to find different words and to do that you need to have more of an education.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Different
  • Words
  • Brain

• I want to venture out into music education for kids. As a child, I was discouraged by a lack of money, and now I want to use my platform to give back to kids without resources.

  

  Khalid
  • Music
  • Money
  • Kids

• What are we Democrats fighting for? We are not fighting for salvation and going to heaven. But we are fighting for Medicaid, Medicare, health care, education, jobs, helping old folks.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Health
  • Fighting
  • Heaven

• It's very easy for people to say what's wrong with education in Arizona, but if I'm elected as governor, I want to focus on what we're doing well and maximizing the impact of what we know is working.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • People
  • Education
  • Focus

• There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Respect
  • Practice

• People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.

  

  Azim Premji
  • People
  • Money
  • Power

• When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.

  

  Ken Norton
  • Today
  • Education

• I went to India with UNICEF in connection with Manchester United to raise money for children's education.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Children
  • Money
  • Connection

• Policies to strengthen education and training, to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and to promote capital investment, both public and private, could all potentially be of great benefit in improving future living standards in our nation.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Great
  • Future
  • Training

• Creating large numbers of decent jobs for young people is critical for achieving overall development objectives, from poverty reduction to better health and education.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • People
  • Health
  • Poverty

• If you can look back and say, "The economy's better. Our security's better. The environment's better. Our kids' education is better," if you can say that you've made things better, then considering all the challenges out there, you should feel good. But I'm the first to acknowledge that I did not crack the code in terms of reducing this partisan fever.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Environment

• Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Peace

• Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Education
  • Moral

• I think every business should build on their strengths, and the strengths of Victoria are our clean, green agriculture; the strengths of Victoria are our strong education system.

  

  Denis Napthine
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Green

• We think we can contribute something toward the improvement of public education in our country.

  

  Charles Best
  • Country
  • Education
  • Improvement

• Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

  

  Bobby Scott
  • Time
  • Good
  • College

• The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

  

  Jerome Isaac Friedman
  • Parents
  • Strong
  • Brother

• Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

  

  W. W. Sawyer
  • Bad
  • Words
  • Imagination

• I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

  

  Jim Jordan
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Culture

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