Quotes about Education

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

“Our mission at Khan Academy is a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere, and college readiness is a crucial part of that. We want to help as many students as possible prepare for college and for life, and since the SAT measures preparedness for college, our partnership with the College Board is a natural fit.”

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

“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.”

“It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.”

“You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.”

“I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.”

“Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.”

“I went to Northampton College of Further Education. I left there - when I was 16, I left Kingsthorpe Upper - and I went and did a diploma in performing arts, so it was my start in the training process to becoming an actor.”

“For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.”

“How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!”

“The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.”

“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”

“I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.”

“My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me to get some qualifications, and I ended up winning a choral scholarship to a cathedral school.”

“You can accomplish anything, if you are focused and determined, believe in yourself, and get education and certifications that will give you confidence.”

“I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.”

“A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.”

“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.”