Quotes on education

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Author: Mortimer Adler

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

Author: Clay Aiken

I did get a degree in special education.

Author: Clay Aiken

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Author: Clay Aiken

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

Author: Howard Aiken

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

Author: Daniel Akaka

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

Author: Buzz Aldrin

During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.

Author: Lucille Allard

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Author: Woody Allen

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Author: Woody Allen

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

Author: David Amram

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Author: Loni Anderson

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Author: Loni Anderson

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

Author: Sparky Anderson

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Author: Kofi Annan

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Author: Kofi Annan

Few things are as essential as education.

Author: Walter Annenberg

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

Author: Walter Annenberg

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

Author: Piers Anthony

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Author: Jeffrey Archer

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Author: Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Author: Aristotle

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

Author: Kenneth Arrow

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Author: Isaac Asimov

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Author: Mary Astell

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Author: Nancy Astor

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Author: Jane Austen

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Author: Jane Austen

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.

Author: Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Author: Alan Autry

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Author: Alan Autry

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

Author: Alan Autry

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

Author: Kevin Ayers

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

Author: Charles Babbage

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Author: Joe Baca

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Author: Joe Baca

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

Author: Joe Baca

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

Author: Jillian Bach

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

Author: Abdullah Badawi

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

Author: Abdullah Badawi

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

Author: Michael Badnarik

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

Author: Liberty Bailey

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

Author: Howard Baker

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

Author: John Baldacci

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Author: James Baldwin

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Author: James Baldwin

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Author: Hosea Ballou

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

Author: Tallulah Bankhead

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Author: Tallulah Bankhead

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

Author: Roy Barnes

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

Author: Roy Barnes

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Author: Edmund Barton

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

Author: Edmund Barton

I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

Author: Edmund Barton

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

Author: Edmund Barton

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Author: Jacques Barzun

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

Author: Jacques Barzun

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Author: Gregory Bateson

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.

Author: Melissa Bean

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Author: Bob Beauprez

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.

Author: Ulrich Beck

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

Author: Gary Becker

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Author: Henry Beecher

Do not fear mistakes, for without them, you will never learn and grow.

Author: Sonia Sotomayor

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

Author: Carol Bellamy

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.

Author: Carol Bellamy

And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education.

Author: Craig Benson

My education was an education by movies.

Author: Robert Benton

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Author: Paul Berg

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

Author: Shelley Berman

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

Author: Gael Bernal

My father had very little formal education.

Author: Daniel Berrigan

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Author: Mahesh Bhupathi

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

Author: Judy Biggert

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

Author: Jeff Bingaman

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

Author: Elizabeth Blackwell

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.

Author: Rod Blagojevich

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

Author: Rod Blagojevich

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

Author: Cate Blanchett

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

Author: Kathleen Blanco

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Author: Allan Bloom

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

Author: Sidney Blumenthal

Public education is an investment in our future.

Author: Matt Blunt

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

Author: Matt Blunt

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

Author: W. Bois

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Author: Derek Bok

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Author: Christopher Bond

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

Author: Julian Bond

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

Author: Julian Bond

When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.

Author: Omar Bongo

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Author: Daniel Boorstin

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

Author: Amar Bose

As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.

Author: Leonard Boswell

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

Author: Leonard Boswell

Education is not so important as people think.

Author: Elizabeth Bowen

People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

Author: Marvin Bower

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

Author: Jack Bowman

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.

Author: Barbara Boxer

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

Author: Barbara Boxer

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

Author: Allen Boyd

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

Author: Arthur Boyd

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Author: Ray Bradbury

Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay.

Author: Robert Brady

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

Author: Andre Braugher

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

Author: Carol Braun

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

Author: Carol Braun

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Author: Donna Brazile

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Author: Rory Bremner

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody.

Author: Rory Bremner

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

Author: Susie Bright

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

Author: Susie Bright

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.

Author: Peter Brimelow

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

Author: Peter Brimelow

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Author: Peter Brimelow

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.

Author: David Brin

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

Author: Charlotte Bronte

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

Author: Gwendolyn Brooks

We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.

Author: Bruce Brown

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Author: Rita Brown

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

Author: Avery Brundage

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Author: Avery Brundage

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Author: Jerome Bruner

Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.

Author: John Bruton

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Author: Jean Bruyere

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

Author: William Bryan

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

Author: John Buchan

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

Author: Thomas Bulfinch

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.

Author: Thomas Bulfinch

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Author: Edmund Burke

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

Author: Carol Burnett

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

Author: Conrad Burns

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Author: William Burroughs

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

Author: George Bush

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.

Author: Sophia Bush

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Author: Michael Caine

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

Author: Mary Calderone

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

Author: Anne Campbell

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

Author: Anne Campbell

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

Author: Gaston Caperton

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

Author: Gaston Caperton

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.

Author: Arthur Capper

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

Author: Arthur Capper

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

Author: Orson Card

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

Author: Henry Carey