Quotes about Education

“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.”

“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.”

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”

“Education was never my higher calling.”

“The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.”

“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”

“Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.”

“Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.”

“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”

“The mere imparting of information is not education.”

“I had an education at a mainstream school, I went to university, I got a job and with my cerebral palsy have been a successful and independent human being and I am proud of who I am.”

“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”

“Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.”

“My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.”

“It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.”

“Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship... When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was to prepare for citizenship in a new, constitutional, democratic society.”

“We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.”

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

“I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.”

“To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.”