Famous Quotes & Sayings

People need to understand that even though we struggle to maintain facilities with limited funds, we have always been able to maintain an excellent education for our students.

Bill Watterson

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

Bennie Thompson

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

Bennett Cerf

One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.

Bill Gates

These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

Bill Gates

It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

Bill Gates

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

Bill Gates

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Bob Taft

A dynamic economy begins with a good education.

Bob Taft

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

I think it is really important that we listen to what people in the field of education have to say.

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language.

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

I think it's lack of education - that's usually the problem with urban communities.

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.

Ben Bernanke

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

Ahmed Zewail

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

Carlos Slim

Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

Bob McNair

If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can't be competitive if you don't have a good education.

My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

Barbara Lynn

I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

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.

We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

Tom Cooper

We need to start the education now instead of waiting until it happens.

We need to solve structural problems, such as agrarian reform and the structural problems of housing, employment, health, education and roads.

Anthony Browne

Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.

Mechai Viravaidya

The government budget, the lack of the declaration, the prime minister's abdication from the role, and the consequent weak public education program has resulted in what we have today: a tremendous increase,

Aaron Schock

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

Ahmed Zewail

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

Alain de Botton

My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.