Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Evelyn Glennie

Scotland has never ceased to amaze the world with its forward vision, bold action and great educational institutions. Nothing makes me more proud than to promote this wonderful land with all its richness and diversity wherever I go.

Evelyn Waugh

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

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.

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Bill Gates

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How could it come down to that? Kids have to get their education. They have to go to school.

J. D. Salinger

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

J. D. Salinger

It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.

It will be a marriage of science, engineering, public policy and education.

It's a great education for the students. We've got these 15- and 16-year-olds and it's fun just watching them.