Famous Quotes & Sayings

Viktor Yushchenko

We have filled in that gap in primary education!

David Letterman

Donald Trump had a university. Well, the state attorney general decided that the Donald Trump University was an unlicensed sham. And I thought, you know you're at a bad university when your commencement speaker is Whitey Bulger.

David Elkind

So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.

David Elkind

If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.

David Barton

Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.

David O. McKay

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

David Ogilvy

Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I would have performed miracles of scholarship and become Regius Professor of Modern History.

David McCord

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.

David Mamet

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

Danny Bonaduce

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

Condoleezza Rice

[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

Dan Fogelberg

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

Dan Fogelberg

Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

Thomas Sowell

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.

Cherie Blair

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

Clayton Christensen

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

Doris Lessing

I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.

Ian Harding

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Ronaldinho

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

Euripides

Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves

Muhammad Yunus

I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and with what little we had, they were able to provide an education for their children.

Dan Shechtman

The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.

Patricia A. Woertz

Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

Robert Reich

I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.

Magic Johnson

Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.

Malala Yousafzai

I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

Malala Yousafzai

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

We were shocked with the findings. This is not just a matter of education anymore, it's about installing policies to help protect our children.

Sathya Baba

True education is not for a mere living, but for a fuller and meaningful life.

Today's older Americans are very different from their grandparents, living longer with lower rates of disability, with higher rates of education and garnering more wealth.

We need to teach more health education at the elementary school level.

Ludwig von Mises

Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures by boycotting and silencing the independent economists. But truth persists and works, even if nobody is left to utter it.