I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.
~By Sophia Bush ~
In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.
~By Mike Rogers ~
The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.
~By Howard Baker ~
The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
~By Bobby Scott ~
I believe education is the great equalizer.
~By Dave Heineman ~
Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
~By Simon van der Meer ~
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
~By Ann Plato ~
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
~By Arthur Boyd ~
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
~By Jon Secada ~
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
~By John Dewey ~
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.
~By Marvin Hamlisch ~
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
~By Milton R. Sapirstein ~
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 ~
Public education is an investment in our future.
~By Matt Blunt ~
I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
~By Loretta Young ~
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
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.
~By William Glasser ~
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
~By Charles Barkley ~
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
~By Bob Beauprez ~
We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.
~By Bob Inglis ~
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
~By Mark Mothersbaugh ~
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
~By Lane Evans ~
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
~By George Will ~
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
~By Nat King Cole ~
The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
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 ~
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
~By David Amram ~
The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.
~By James S. Coleman ~
The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.
~By Kenneth Edmonds ~
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.
~By Gaylord Nelson ~
Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.
~By Alexis Herman ~
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.
~By Steven Chu ~
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
A good education is another name for happiness.
~By Ann Plato ~
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
~By David Suzuki ~
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
~By William Bennett ~
After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
~By Jane Elliot ~
Few things are as essential as education.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
~By James Madison ~
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
~By Susie Bright ~
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
~By Will Rogers ~
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
~By William Law ~
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
~By Lucretia Mott ~
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~By Will Durant ~
Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.
~By Maurice Hinchey ~
We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.
~By Arthur Capper ~
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
~By Dennis Prager ~
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
~By Marvin Bower ~
I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
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 ~
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful.
~By Leroy Chiao ~
The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.
~By Jeff Bingaman ~
In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
~By John Hume ~
And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.
~By John Breaux ~
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.
~By Roy Romer ~
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
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 ~
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
~By Robert Kiyosaki ~
I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.
~By Arthur Hailey ~
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
~By Richard Cobden ~
The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
~By Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ~
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
~By Mary Harris Jones ~
I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
~By Clay Aiken ~
But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.
~By Daniel J. Evans ~
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
~By Harold Rosenberg ~
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
~By Zhuang Zi ~
Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
~By Harvey Cushing ~
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
~By David Soul ~
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
~By Barney Frank ~
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
~By Harvey Cushing ~
Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.
~By Estelle Morris ~
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
~By Michelle Obama ~
If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.
~By Ken Mehlman ~
It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.
~By John Hoeven ~
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
~By H. G. Wells ~
Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
~By Pete Seeger ~
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
~By Claiborne Pell ~
It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.
~By Ruth J. Simmons ~
I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
~By Fred Savage ~
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