Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Charles William Eliot

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

Charles William Eliot

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

Charles William Eliot

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

Billy Joel

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

Billy Joel

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

Billy Joel

There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.

Billy Joel

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

Billy Joel

You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

Bill Russell

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

Beyonce Knowles

I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.

Edward James Olmos

Education is a vaccine for violence.

Edward Hirsch

Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.

Edward Gibbon

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

Edith Wharton

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

Earl Warren

In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

Earl Warren

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

Earl Warren

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

David Riesman

Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all the blandishments of mass culture-even the churches which follow the hillbillies to the city often make use of the same "hard sell" that the advertisers and politicians do.

David Horowitz

The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of people - mostly poor - in the last 75 years. But thanks to a politically corrupted media and educational system, their pigheaded pursuit of socialist fantasies goes on.

David Hockney

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

David Hockney

No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Beatrice Webb

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Audrey Hepburn

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

Audrey Hepburn

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

Arne Duncan

I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.

Derek Bok

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

Denis Waitley

"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."

Dee Hock

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Dick Bruna

Each book first begins with a little idea.

Dennis Kucinich

We have to make education a priority, but all this debate about education and testing is almost beside the point. We only spend a fraction of the money on education that we spend on arms buildups. Under a Kucinich administration, education becomes one of the top domestic priorities. We put money into it. We cause the government to be vitally involved in it. And we make sure our children have the love of knowledge.