946 private quotes tagged education

“My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.” — Ezra Koenig

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“The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.” — Gary Locke

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“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?” — Maria Montessori

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“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.” — Karl Kraus

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“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.” — Thomas Huxley

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“An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.” — Alan K. Simpson

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“The mere imparting of information is not education.” — Carter G. Woodson

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“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.” — Thomas Sowell

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“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.” — Maria Montessori

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“My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.” — Ronnie James Dio

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“I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.” — Michelle Obama

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“Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.” — Paul Wellstone

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“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.” — Tallulah Bankhead

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“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.” — John W. Gardner

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“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.” — William Hazlitt

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“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.” — Earl Warren

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“For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.” — Liam Neeson

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“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.” — Ernest Renan

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“The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.” — Carter G. Woodson

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“I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.” — Tom Stoppard

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“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.” — Brigham Young

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“Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.” — John Maynard Keynes

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“Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.” — George W. Bush

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“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.” — Kofi Annan

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“My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.” — David Oyelowo

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