Famous Quotes & Sayings

He concentrated on things that had a long-lasting effect. Education of children, enhancing the lives of Native Americans, our natural heritage,

Green School was a monument to education in this part of the world,

I always preach to my Sailors about the importance of education. An education is something that no one can ever take from you.

Gary Johnson

He is a great, great man. A great communicator in education.

I don't even gamble because I hate losing money. But I figure it's going to education, so it can't be that bad.

I don't feel it was a good loss. There are no good losses. But it was an educational loss.

Ideas, even those inimical to our values, must be surfaced so they can be challenged. That is where education occurs.

Big Sean

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.

Jon Corzine

get right at the heart of how we fund public education in this state.

Joe Thompson

UID determined, right from the beginning, there was a real need in the industry for quality, comprehensive education at the right price.

David Brooks

The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens of millions of Americans who have dropped out of high school or college. It's not nearly as big a problem as the 40 percent of children who are born out of wedlock. It's not nearly as big a problem as the nation's stagnant human capital, its stagnant social mobility and the disorganized social fabric for the bottom 50 percent.

David Allen

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

Dave Barry

Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations - if you get my drift.

Dave Barry

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

David Suzuki

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

David Pogue

The rise of the citizen review site is a sobering development. No longer are you on top of the mountain, blasting your marketing message down to the masses through your megaphone. All of a sudden, the masses are conversing with one another. If your service or product isn't any good, they'll out you.

Carl Sagan

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Carl Sagan

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Carter G. Woodson

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

Carter G. Woodson

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Carter G. Woodson

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

Caroline Kennedy

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

Camille Paglia

[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.

Camille Paglia

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

Agnes Smedley

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

Agnes Repplier

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Agnes Repplier

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Agnes Repplier

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

Alan K. Simpson

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan K. Simpson

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.