Education Quotes

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

Learn to think continentally.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.

I 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.

The 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.