Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caitlyn Jenner

I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.

James Wright

(Ike) needs a facility that supports the education our students deserve.

If I were IBM, I'd understand it. I'm not IBM. I represent 14 educational institutions.

Casey Affleck

I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.

Sitaram Yechury

In education, there is a golden triangle of quantity, quality and equity. You just can't ignore one while strengthening the others.

I'm sympathetic to the (New Orleans) schools. At the same time, it's my education and I should have the right to go where I want.

It's really about where we focused for the last 10 or so years. We have approached education reform kind of like it's immunization.

Ben Bernanke

Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.

It's a thrill for me every time I get to talk to kids. Education is so important in our line of work and really for our country, and this is really where it starts.

Tippi Hedren

I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

The risk factors are the key reasons a person would use drugs. A kid could have all the information about drugs, but if they're not keyed in to the risk factors, they could still use. The regular school programs that incorporate drug education are not as intense as this one.

By measuring things simply on a standardized test, you're never going to get a full picture of education in Florida. There's more individual attention.

Because music is not a tested area, often (districts) will take time from music education to focus on math and reading. It is happening in a lot of places.

Jeremy Corbyn

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

Higher education is still quite an open market in this area. The roots of course-management systems in higher education are still very shallow.

Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.

Higher education has seen its percentage of general fund decline.

Higher education has lost its way, but we've all lost our way.

Higher education for me was a transforming experience. I'm hoping to transform the lives of students.

His leadership will be very key in leading the faculty and staff and implementing the education that will meet the students' needs.

Hannah More

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

Guy Kawasaki

The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.

Glenn Frey

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

Evan Esar

A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.

Evan Esar

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

Evan Esar

Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

Evan Esar

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Ernst Haas

Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.

Florence King

As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

Florence King

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

Flannery O'Connor

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Henry Louis Gates

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Henny Youngman

In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.