Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Maslow

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

Abraham Lincoln

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

Abraham Lincoln

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Aleksandar Hemon

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Dallas Willard

Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

Anna Friel

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.

Oscar Arias

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

Kailash Satyarthi

I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

Craig T. Nelson

Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them.

This story is another feather in our cap. We're gaining an increasing national role in education reform.

Publilius Syrus

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Paul Hawken

There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.

Pete Seeger

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Tyler Oakley

A lot of the education that I got at Michigan State I still use to this very day.

Vint Cerf

One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had before. We see people working together, playing together, interacting in social settings using these media. We hope that will emerge as the new tool for education.

Victor LaValle

Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

I think we're getting away from the real education issues.

I think we have to keep the proper perspective on high school sports. Sometimes, sports can seem like a runaway train, so we have to remind our student-athletes that education comes first, and that you have to be a good sport to play and a good citizen.

Peter Brimelow

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Bernie Sanders

There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

We serve as a research center. But our most important role is education. We teach the history of the fire service - and we teach fire safety. That's the most important component.

Tony Blair

Tomorrow's white paper on education marks a pivotal moment in the life of this parliament and this government,

Cyril Connolly

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges as a numeral. This points in the direction of a definition of abstraction: when we abstract we voluntarily ignore details of a context, so that we can accomplish a goal.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Cornel West

Education is soul crafting.