946 private quotes tagged education

“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” — G. M. Trevelyan

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“Education is all a matter of building bridges.” — Ralph Ellison

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“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.” — Al McGuire

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“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” — Horace Mann

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“I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.” — Eva Longoria

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“Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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“Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.” — Dennis Miller

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“Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.” — James A. Baldwin

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“The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.” — John Ruskin

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“Responsibility educates.” — Wendell Phillips

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“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.” — John Ruskin

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“Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.” — Charles Barkley

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“I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.” — Evander Holyfield

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“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.” — Aleister Crowley

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“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.” — John Ruskin

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“The 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 A. Baldwin

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“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” — B. F. Skinner

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“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.” — Maria Montessori

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“We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.” — Stephen King

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“Your library is your paradise.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“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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