Quotes about Education

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”

“Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.”

“Education has to be more than tests and formulas.”

“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.”

“Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.”

“A flourishing higher education sector is critical to a nation's economy and culture.”

“Education is an incredibly personal issue for me. If you're the first generation to go to college, sometimes you don't realize your potential until others point it out.”

“My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.”

“With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.”

“I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.”

“In the musician, there is a tendency to have a narrowness. It's all compartmentalized. I am playing the violin; that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.”

“Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.”

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

“Education has for its object the formation of character.”

“A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.”

“If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.”

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”

“My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails from town to town to box and wrestle for money.”

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

“Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.”

“In an ideal world, of course, we would still be arguing for free education. If I was starting with a blank sheet of paper, I would have system that was funded by progressive taxation where graduates aren't making that contribution. But we don't live in an ideal world.”