Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyler Oakley

A lot of the education that I got at Michigan State I still use to this very day.

Vint Cerf

One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had before. We see people working together, playing together, interacting in social settings using these media. We hope that will emerge as the new tool for education.

Victor LaValle

Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

David Blunkett

As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.

Robert Green Ingersoll

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

David Riesman

Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all the blandishments of mass culture-even the churches which follow the hillbillies to the city often make use of the same "hard sell" that the advertisers and politicians do.

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.

The most important problem that Turkey has is education.

Wendy Kopp

People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.

Kailash Satyarthi

I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

Patricia A. Woertz

Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

Heinrich Boll

The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.

Geoffrey Canada

We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

Paul Sadler

I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.

Priscilla Chan

Education is an incredibly personal issue for me. If you're the first generation to go to college, sometimes you don't realize your potential until others point it out.

Peter Orszag

There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

Dean Wareham

The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I have an interest in politics, which maybe works its way into the songs in small, subtle ways.

We must be good stewards for our children's education and for our seniors' quality of life.

Euripides

Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves

Cherie Blair

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

Clayton Christensen

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

Doris Lessing

I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.

Ian Harding

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Ronaldinho

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

David Letterman

Donald Trump had a university. Well, the state attorney general decided that the Donald Trump University was an unlicensed sham. And I thought, you know you're at a bad university when your commencement speaker is Whitey Bulger.

David Elkind

So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.

David Elkind

If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.

Colman McCarthy

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

E. V. Lucas

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

E. W. Howe

No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.

E. W. Howe

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.