946 private quotes tagged education

“It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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“On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.” — Daniel Webster

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“President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.” — Elizabeth Warren

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“The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.” — Kamisese Mara

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“It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“Change is the end result of all true learning.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.” — William Law

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“It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.” — Kathleen Turner

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“Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.” — Garrett Hardin

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“The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.” — Mia Love

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“I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.” — Ellen Ochoa

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“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.” — Robert Kiyosaki

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“We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.” — Kinky Friedman

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“'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.” — Dianne Feinstein

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“Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” — Michelle Obama

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“Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.” — Judy Biggert

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“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.” — A. A. Milne

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“The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.” — Morris Dees

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“For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.” — Thomas Frank

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“True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.” — Philip Pullman

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“Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.” — Ryan White

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“But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.” — Kathy Ireland

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“What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.” — Sammy Davis, Jr.

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