Public education is an investment in our future.
Matt BluntMost 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 respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson MiznerAll real education is the architecture of the soul.
William J BennettMy mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George WashingtonEducation is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel BoorstinWhen you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.
Frank BaerI certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. [if the massive marketing behind such things is a success for sure!]
Fannie Farmer'It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a gentleman of liberal education, refined, manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor... No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.'
John Paul JonesDon't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.
Chris BurkeIf you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Peter F DruckerInvesting in education comes first
Gordon BrownAcademies are leading the reforms that will radically
improve secondary education in this country.
David MilibandNothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common then unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ' press on ' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin CoolidgeI 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 GardnerEverything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights
Susan TaylorEducation... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G M TrevelyanA liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.
Caroline BirdOlympism 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 CoubertinIf someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around
Jim RohnEducation, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose BierceLife isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education
Thomas HughesA 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 alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace MannEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson MandelaThe Scots should not get free university education subsidised by us in England. They shouldn't get free nursing care.
Boris JohnsonEducation commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea BallouVitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realise the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
B C ForbesReading 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 HeimelWhy should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich FrommThe first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
Simon BolivarThe object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives
Robert HutchinsA college education shows a man how little other people know.
Thomas HaliburtonThe elimination of war should be the major task of social education
Konrad LorenzAnyone who has passed through the regular gradations of classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
William HazlittA good education should leave much to be desired.
Alan GreggReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra PoundThe paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James BaldwinThe purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Harold RosenbergEducation is the cornerstone of our communities and our country
Bill FristWhat is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell PhillipsEducation is an admirable thing, but it is worth noting that there is nothing worth knowing that can be taught
Oscar WildeThe central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
Eric HofferThe sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
Avery BrundageGentlemen: I have not had your advantages. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
Horatio BottomleyI'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that. [Surely not!]
Sam DashEducation is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Horace MannEducation helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
Maya AngelouThe ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
John GardnerEducation is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
Brad Henry
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