The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
~By Steve Irwin ~
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
~By Karl Kraus ~
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
~By William Glasser ~
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
~By John Dewey ~
But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.
~By Johannes Rau ~
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
~By Nicholas Negroponte ~
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
~By Alice James ~
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
~By Ezra Pound ~
Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.
~By Ernie Fletcher ~
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.
~By Jose Ramos Horta ~
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
~By John Ruskin ~
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
~By Jane Austen ~
You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.
~By Bernie Sanders ~
My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
~By John Sebastian ~
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
The highest result of education is tolerance.
~By Helen Keller ~
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
~By John Holt ~
We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance.
~By John Larson ~
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
~By David McCullough ~
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
~By Lillian Smith ~
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
~By James S. Coleman ~
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
~By Antonia Fraser ~
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
~By William Bennett ~
From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.
~By John Pople ~
To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.
~By Robert Purvis ~
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 ~
At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
~By Grace Abbott ~
I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
~By Ric Keller ~
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
~By Harriet Martineau ~
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
~By Mary Harris Jones ~
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
~By John Ruskin ~
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.
~By Kent McCord ~
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.
~By William Masters ~
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
~By Earl Warren ~
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
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 ~
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 ~
Freedom can occur only through education.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
~By John Hannah ~
It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.
~By Frank Shorter ~
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
~By Dean Kamen ~
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
~By Valerie Jarrett ~
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
~By Agnes de Mille ~
Education is the vaccine for violence.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
~By Edward Everett ~
You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
~By Isaac Rosenberg ~
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
~By Emma Goldman ~
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
~By Jodi Rell ~
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
~By John Lubbock ~
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 ~
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
~By Horace Mann ~
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 ~
Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.
~By William Vickrey ~
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
~By Al Gore ~
I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
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 ~
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
~By Philip Pullman ~
One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.
~By Bill Lear ~
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
~By John S. Dickey ~
Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda.
~By Kenny Guinn ~
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 ~
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
~By Plato ~
We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.
~By Peter Hain ~
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 ~
My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.
~By Susie Bright ~
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
~By Chaka Fattah ~
I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
~By Fannie Farmer ~
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
~By Barry Commoner ~
Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.
~By Tommy Rettig ~
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~
It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
~By Ed Miliband ~
Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.
~By James E. Rogers ~
Education is not so important as people think.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
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