Famous Quotes & Sayings

I knew I didn't want to teach. For whatever reason, I didn't think about teaching in higher education.

Roy Barnes

Improving education is the single greatest thing we can do for the people of Georgia, but there are other things we also need to do.

Immigrants, whether you're looking at Irish and Germans 200 years ago or Hispanics today, come in with relatively low levels of education and they take relatively low-level jobs.

Implementation of ADP projects in some sectors, particularly in education sector is very sluggish. We are planning to use the money to some social development projects.

David Allen

I'm happy that it's over with and I know where I'm going. I'm real excited about going out there and just playing football. The good thing about it is that I can get a great education and I get to play the sport I love.

I lived in Wales back in 1982 and 1983. I studied journalism at South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education just off Newport Road in Cardiff.

I like what the Legislature did this year. They made a positive statement about education in the state.

David Crane

If you look at the statewide major occupational groups, it's pretty much as we expected. The larger the occupation, the more openings you have. Plus a lot are for more minimum wage and lower pay that would involve less . . . education and experience. And there's a lot of turnover in these jobs.

I just think they're flat out wrong. We literally have thousands of people working every day to improve not only the education of African-American kids, but other kids as well.

I love teaching. Later down the road, I'll do a lot more. There's nothing more important than education.

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.

Socrates

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The kid dead on the ground. Fourteen, Ash. Fourteen. I’m fourteen.” – Nick “Yeah…” – Acheron “Ash, I’m fourteen.” – Nick “Got it. You’re fourteen. I’m so proud you can count that high. It’s a testament to the modern American educational system. But I should probably point out that you’re not the only one. I’m told you go a school with a whole class of – get this – kids who are fourteen.” – Acheron

Sherwood Anderson

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Terence

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Nigel Short

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

Nicolas Chamfort

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

All education is, in a sense, vocational, vocational for living

Eric Hoffer

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Eric Hoffer

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.

The focus of the event is education and fun.

Tim Carter

You don't have to be a construction expert. But you do need a reasonable level of education to know if the job is being done right.

James Cash Penney

Every great business is built on friendship.