Famous Quotes & Sayings

Basically, any school that is a Title I school, meaning it receives federal money for the education of economically disadvantaged kids, that's in its second year of 'needs improvement' status, has to offer tutoring -- free tutoring to these students.

China's education system is a no man's land. Schools have too much autonomy, they receive government funding, but they are not monitored.

Selena

Music is not a very stable business. It comes and it goes, and so does money, but your education stays with you for the rest of your life. When you have that education, and you have nothing to fall back on, you can get a get a job anywhere.

Music education in the public schools is where it all begins.

Bob Graham

more than the federal government will spend on education this year, twice as much as the federal government will spend on our roads, bridges, highways and public transit systems.

My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.

E. B. White

Numerous times we've had no one show up after the hour. Students need to be on time. They miss their education if they're not at school on time.

Jeremy Corbyn

Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.

Jon Corzine

get right at the heart of how we fund public education in this state.

Khalil Gibran

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers

Groucho Marx

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

I don't even gamble because I hate losing money. But I figure it's going to education, so it can't be that bad.

I don't feel it was a good loss. There are no good losses. But it was an educational loss.

Ideas, even those inimical to our values, must be surfaced so they can be challenged. That is where education occurs.

Big Sean

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.

Dalton McGuinty

I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no education like adversity.

Calvin Coolidge

It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than it is under an absolute government that they should be ignorant. Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to the government.

Calvin Coolidge

To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

Calvin Coolidge

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

Calvin Coolidge

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

Calvin Coolidge

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Cesar Chavez

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

Cesar Chavez

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

Cesar Chavez

The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.

Cesar Chavez

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Carl T. Rowan

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Alan Keyes

We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.

Al Green

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

Al Capp

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Charles Kettering

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Charles Kettering

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.