Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.

Edvard Munch

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

Eduardo Galeano

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

And their first instinctual reaction is to flee. Everything we do in education is to teach the horse to stop, stand still You're in doubt, stand still.

As far as the newspaper ads, the public education program ? you're not going to see that again.

Bill Clinton

As every parent knows, a good education is a gift that keeps on giving for a lifetime.

As a consequence, they do not harm wages in law, education and the social sciences, where most native-born Americans thrive. Foreign-born engineers and scientists have particularly been interested in working in the U.S. In contrast, U.S.-born employees with doctorates are more likely to specialize in law, education and the social sciences.

The move toward longer kindergarten, I think, encourages deterioration of parents involved in the education of the youngest of our children, I am not in favor of expanding (the concept) to all of Utah students.

The (old type) jobs are hard to get. What do you do if they fail to get a proper education?

English girls' schools to-day providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Education and the Internet must go hand in hand, ... It will serve as one of the great equalizers.

Wally Herger

Each year, I have the honor of recommending young men and women for appointment to the U.S. military Academies, ... This is an opportunity for a top-notch education for the right kind of student.

Dr. King encouraged me to finish my education and pursue the ministry.

Equity comes from the state providing enough funding for its requirements. The state must meet its obligation for funding education.

Kendrick Meek

Florida has seen empty promises on education before.

Harry Reid

First, let's take Social Security and Medicare off the table so that those funds are protected. Then, let's take one-third of the surplus and give every American, not just the rich, a fair tax cut. Let's use another third of the surplus and invest it in education and other key priorities. Finally, let's use a third of our surplus to keep paying down the debt.

Maurice Allais

Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.

There's probably about a generation and a half that have not had, by any standards we consider, an education.

said Kennedy, who will make education programs her focus on the board. ''I just fell in love with the museum.

Sadly there is a small group of parents who do not respect education.

President Miller had an enormous impact on my education and the education of all SDSU students over the years, were are all really going to miss her.

Science education is the foundation of our global economy, yet it has been treated with second-class status for decades,

Public education is probably already the most transparent and accountable of any government system. When do we start talking about resources?

At the forefront of global jihad are technologically savvy, Western-educated terrorists.

Andrea Lewis

Don't get me wrong ten list, I'm getting a good education but some of my professors just don't get me going.

An investment in education is an investment in our future.

This allows the students to receive an education tomorrow if they so choose,

They're taking students, who really don't have a place to go, to get their education and hopefully return to their schools in January.

Brian Nelson

They've done good. We had an education phase with our public. At first they didn't like it.

A lot of education has to take place. They're not slow and smelly... that they're actually more environmentally friendly than people might think. But our research shows that they're a tough sell to those buyers.

Jonathan Kozol

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.