Famous Quotes & Sayings

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

Special education kids are always going to struggle with that accountability piece because special education kids are in the program because they have learning disabilities,

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Jordan

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Benito Mussolini

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

Elizabeth Warren

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

Benjamin Disraeli

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no education like adversity.

Calvin Coolidge

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Alan Keyes

We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.

Al Capp

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Charles Kettering

The difference between intelligence and an education is this-that intelligence will make you a good living.

Karen Hughes

I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.

Jane Addams

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Janet Jackson

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

bell hooks

We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.

bell hooks

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

Daniel H. Pink

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

Booker T. Washington

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Bob Dylan

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.

Blake Mycoskie

Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

Blaise Pascal

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

Dean Kamen

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

Anzia Yezierska

At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.

Elie Wiesel

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

Jim Jeffords

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

Aristotle

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Aristotle

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.