Quotes about Education

“The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.”

“Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.”

“The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.”

“Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.”

“The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy.”

“Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.”

“All the education programmes provided by our foundations are in pursuit of a common vision to upgrade education standards and quality of life.”

“Virtual reality sort of encloses and immerses the person into an experience that can be really cool but probably has a lower commercial interest over time. Less people will be interested in that, but there are some really cool areas there for education and gaming that we have a lot of interest in.”

“I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.”

“Education is the vaccine for violence.”

“I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.”

“By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.”

“Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.”

“I would radically redesign early years education to learn from the best bits of the Finnish system.”

“Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.”

“Education is all a matter of building bridges.”

“Books, the children of the brain.”

“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”

“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.”

“I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.”

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”