I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.
~By Burt Lancaster ~
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
~By Maria Montessori ~
And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.
~By Andre Braugher ~
Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue.
~By John Larson ~
My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.
~By James Cronin ~
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
~By Charles Kettering ~
It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.
~By Shannon Miller ~
Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.
~By James E. Rogers ~
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
~By Diane Ravitch ~
Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
~By Steve Irwin ~
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
~By Mary S. Calderone ~
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
~By Alan Keyes ~
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
~By Walter Scott ~
The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.
~By Herb Ritts ~
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
~By William Glasser ~
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
~By Gouverneur Morris ~
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.
~By Joyce A. Myers ~
If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
~By Brad Sherman ~
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
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.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
~By Mark Twain ~
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
~By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ~
If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
~By Thomas Chandler Haliburton ~
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
~By Atal Bihari Vajpayee ~
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
~By Richard Morris ~
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
~By John Ruskin ~
I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.
~By Jim Evans ~
I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
~By Peter Criss ~
I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
~By John Major ~
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
~By Ron Jaworski ~
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
~By H. G. Wells ~
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
~By Blanche Lincoln ~
'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.
~By Terry Prachett ~
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
~By Dan Quayle ~
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.
~By Peter Maxwell Davies ~
If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
~By Clay Aiken ~
Education is the art of making man ethical.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
~By George Santayana ~
Education is not so important as people think.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.
~By Dave Obey ~
The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.
~By David E. Price ~
I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.
~By Henry Charles Carey ~
It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.
~By Luc Montagnier ~
During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.
~By Anita Hill ~
In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
~By Jack Steinberger ~
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
~By Dylan Thomas ~
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.
~By Rick Perry ~
I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.
~By Sanaa Lathan ~
I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
~By Louis L'Amour ~
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.
~By Peter Brimelow ~
I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
~By H. L. Hunt ~
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
~By Roger Moore ~
I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.
~By Karen Hughes ~
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
~By Milton R. Sapirstein ~
Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
~By John Murray ~
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
~By Horace Mann ~
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
~By Jim Rohn ~
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
~By Alexandre Dumas ~
The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use.
~By Emma Thompson ~
Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.
~By Estelle Morris ~
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
~By Abdoulaye Wade ~
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
~By Earl Warren ~
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
~By John Strachan ~
Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.
~By Jim Jeffords ~
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
~By Al Gore ~
NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.
~By Bob Inglis ~
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
~By Edward Everett ~
I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.
~By William Wiley ~
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
~By Barnaby C. Keeney ~
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
~By Andrew Cuomo ~
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
~By Karl Kraus ~
We are taking steps to fight the production of meth on our own soil through limiting access to precursor ingredients, supporting educational efforts and providing necessary resources to law enforcement.
~By Greg Walden ~
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
~By Robert Frost ~
The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.
~By Tom Wopat ~
We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
~By Major R. Owens ~
The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.
~By Arto Lindsay ~
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
~By Matthew Henry ~
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
~By George Washington ~
It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.
~By Ron Davies ~
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