Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

Ian Mcewan

It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.

Hugh Mackay

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

Horace Mann

Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

Horace Mann

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

Horace Mann

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

Horace Mann

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

Horace Mann

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Horace Mann

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

Horace Mann

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

Horace Mann

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Horace Mann

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

Horace Mann

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Horace Mann

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Horace Mann

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Horace Mann

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

Horace Mann

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Homer

Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

Malcolm Gladwell

If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.

Sebastian Thrun

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.

I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing.

Carine Roitfeld

I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand.

We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which is why I have launched a crusade against hunger. We also have to improve our educational system and stimulate economic growth.

Eminem

Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one.

Elvis Costello

If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.

Hippocrates

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place...

Hillary Clinton

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

Hillary Clinton

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

Herbert Croly

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

Herbert Hoover

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.