Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.

...knowledge is the cause of human progress.

To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.

Abdul Kalam

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Abdul Kalam

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

When this opportunity was presented to me, it was just the perfect combination of taking my 30-plus years of experience and reconnecting to the heart and soul of public education the students, parents and teachers.

Abraham Lincoln

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

Abraham Lincoln

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Abraham Lincoln

Every head should be cultivated.

Abraham Lincoln

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

Abraham Lincoln

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

Jeff Bezos

If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.

Maajid Nawaz

I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value.

I grew up with a lot of the same kind of education (like Kindermusik),

If we don't pass a referendum, the school here will be a very different place next year.

If we get into a special session, education is a legitimate issue.

Ramon Rodriguez

Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.

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.

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

I felt like it was something good to be a part of. Sportsmanship is our No. 1 priority, much more so than winning. It promotes education, and education is the key.

Groucho Marx

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

She used to be a catechism teacher in Mexico and was really involved in organizing masses. Mom still keeps up with her education in Richmond at the diocese.

She will hold three meetings at the Legion hall and get some education from the public about what they think they might want or need in the form of senior housing. It is an opportunity for the public to learn what is happening and to speak their piece.

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.

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.