Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

Aristotle

Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.

Andrea Lewis

Don't get me wrong ten list, I'm getting a good education but some of my professors just don't get me going.

An investment in education is an investment in our future.

English girls' schools to-day providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Education and the Internet must go hand in hand, ... It will serve as one of the great equalizers.

Wally Herger

Each year, I have the honor of recommending young men and women for appointment to the U.S. military Academies, ... This is an opportunity for a top-notch education for the right kind of student.

Dr. King encouraged me to finish my education and pursue the ministry.

Equity comes from the state providing enough funding for its requirements. The state must meet its obligation for funding education.

Kendrick Meek

Florida has seen empty promises on education before.

David Miliband

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

Bennett's statement is outrageous. As a former secretary of education, he should know better, ... His program should be pulled from the air.

Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.

Ahmed Zewail

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

Alain de Botton

My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.

Bunker Roy

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

I can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked.

We wanted to do something that is student-, parent- and teacher-friendly and not be too radical that people wouldn't understand it. This is the new way education is changing.

We wanted to be able to provide the bundling of that together into very specific vertical market solutions, leveraging the expertise we already have in the education market, the federal government market and the local government market.

We all want comprehensive immigration reform, but the students also need a better education and a better curriculum.

Every race is an education for a race horse. But this is a $750,000 Grade I race.

Nicholas Negroponte

Every single problem you can think of, poverty, peace, the environment, is solved with education or including education,

At the forefront of global jihad are technologically savvy, Western-educated terrorists.

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

Scott Walker

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Anna Jameson

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.

Adlai Stevenson

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Bernie Sanders

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

Bernie Sanders

We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college -- regardless of income.

Bernie Sanders

Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless of the income of their family. This is not a radical idea. In Germany, Scandinavia and many other countries, higher education is either free or very inexpensive. We must do the same.

Bernie Sanders

How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.