Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Barton

Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.

David O. McKay

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

David Ogilvy

Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I would have performed miracles of scholarship and become Regius Professor of Modern History.

David McCord

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.

Danny Bonaduce

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

Condoleezza Rice

[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

Muhammad Yunus

I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and with what little we had, they were able to provide an education for their children.

Dan Shechtman

The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.

We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

Tom Cooper

We need to start the education now instead of waiting until it happens.

We need to solve structural problems, such as agrarian reform and the structural problems of housing, employment, health, education and roads.

Anthony Browne

Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.

Mechai Viravaidya

The government budget, the lack of the declaration, the prime minister's abdication from the role, and the consequent weak public education program has resulted in what we have today: a tremendous increase,

Aaron Schock

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

Thomas Sowell

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.

Ben Bernanke

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.

Flea

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught

Malala Yousafzai

All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

Elliott Carter

I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

Edith Hamilton

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

We're trying to push our education mission to meet the avocations of people, or their external interests.

David Wright

We're trying to make everyone uncomfortable with this report. Whether it's students or higher-education leaders or governments, we all have to do more.

Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.

Dan Fogelberg

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

Dan Fogelberg

Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

Cyril Connolly

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges as a numeral. This points in the direction of a definition of abstraction: when we abstract we voluntarily ignore details of a context, so that we can accomplish a goal.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.