I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star
Shania TwainOlympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinAn education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole FranceAttitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
W C FieldsEducation... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G M TrevelyanIf little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom RobbinsEducation alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace MannEducation is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
Brad HenryA different type of education came when as a member of a medical corps in the National Guard I spent several weeks in a military camp in California.
Paul D BoyerEducation is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonI am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
John GardnerI think that there's this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent than people that don't.
Casey AffleckCuriosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
David HumeEducation, education, education (well-known mantra)
Tony BlairMost people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it
Richard DawkinsI admired Hitler because he came from being a little man with almost no education to power. But I didn't admire him for what he did with it.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerEducation is the cornerstone of our communities and our country
Bill FristEducation about the animals is the most important thing to me.
Steve IrwinEducation is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
B F SkinnerThe object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives
Robert HutchinsI respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson MiznerI consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
Joseph AddisonTo succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan GreenspanA good education should leave much to be desired.
Alan GreggFinancial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it’s not just the rich kids that learn about money... it’s all of us.
David BachIf I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.
Missy ElliotEducation is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Lyndon JohnsonEducation, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose BierceThe whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney HarrisA liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.
Caroline BirdPrejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte BronteThere are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo EmersonReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra PoundSince every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
Emma GoldmanA quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
Audrey HepburnThe purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Harold RosenbergThe ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Mary Wortley MontaguWhen Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education
James McCoshEducation is an admirable thing, but it is worth noting that there is nothing worth knowing that can be taught
Oscar WildeThe best maths lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
Jodi RellParents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
Judith MartinEducation begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John LockeAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter ScottDemography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.
Howard BakerNo one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma GoldmanReading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
Cynthia HeimelEducation has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
Camille Paglia Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
Malcom XI only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
Sparky AndersonI do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial.
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