Quotes about Education

“Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.”

“Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.”

“Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.”

“I could be earning a lot of money as a consultant, or gone higher in education.”

“We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.”

“Our education system teaches the young what to think, not how to think. And if you ever wonder why so many things don't work properly any more, or why you can't get any sense out of so many organisations, this is one of the main reasons.”

“Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.”

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

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

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

“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.”

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

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

“My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.”

“The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children's schooling and education decisions.”

“I am proud to be part of a community that only projects love and education and the support of one another.”

“There are two equalizers in life: the Internet and education.”

“Education is a vacine for violence.”

“Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'”

“For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.”

“I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.”