Famous Quotes & Sayings

What we oppose is a single, national, high-stakes, one-size-fits-all, uber-outcome exam. The notion of a single exam implies there are national standards, and that implies a national curriculum. Then we are on the way to a centralized Prussian education system.

We're always sharing the importance of education with them. It's plain - in order to succeed in life, you've got to get an education.

Bruce Springsteen

We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.

Brian Tracy

Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to customers.

Brian Tracy

Offer your customers a long-term relationship, then do everything possible to build and maintain it.

Brian Tracy

Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive.

Brad Henry

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Jane Hamilton

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Jane Haddam

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

Jane Jacobs

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

Jane Byrne

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Jane Goodall

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Kenneth Edmonds

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

Elizabeth Warren

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

Whether you are talking about cardiac care or education, the fundamental question is: How do you provide it for everyone?

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.

Dennis Miller

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

Edward Everett

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.

Edward Everett

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Gibbon

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Edward Gibbon

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Edgar Friedenberg

The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

Nicholas Negroponte

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

Alan K. Simpson

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan K. Simpson

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.