Quotes about Education

“I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.”

“Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.”

“On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.”

“No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.”

“The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.”

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

“We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.”

“I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.”

“In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.”

“Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.”

“Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.”

“Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.”

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.”

“If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.”

“Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.”

“We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.”

“The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.”

“It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.”

“I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.”

“Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.”

“A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.”