Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was possible for people with a high school education to get a job that paid $75,000 to $100,000 and six weeks of paid vacation. Those jobs are disappearing. The ... low-skill, upper-middle-class way of life is in danger.

It will be the opportunity to examine the under-capacity consideration, ... The most significant principle is protecting the classroom. We can make moves and juggle and at the same time still protect the integrity of the education process.

Richard Steele

The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents

The war left southern Sudan education in ruins.

The USDA is trying to do nutrition education on the cheap.

They wanted a better education, better weather and what could be better than Palm Springs.

O. J. Simpson

They hear that message all the time from people in the educational world,

It makes me feel they (administrators) value our education and what we can provide for our kids.

It's kind of scary. If someone who has an eighth-grade education can walk in and be a counselor, how in the world is Washington protecting the public?

Michael Leunig

For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.

Nancy Greene

For a nation, I'm not sure why we value equity over excellence, ... All kids are entitled to an appropriate education for their ability, not just those we're teaching to a minimum standard.

It's more like the Oxford model of education, where a student takes on a project, goes off and does it and comes back to report on it,

LL Cool J

Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

Madeleine L'Engle

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

Lucy Larcom

I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the rounding of the whole human being out of its nebulous elements into form, as planets and suns are rounded, until they give out safe and steady light. This makes the process a infinite one, not possible to be completed at any school.

John Fowles

Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.

John F. Kennedy

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

John F. Kennedy

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs.

John F. Kennedy

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.

John F. Kennedy

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

John F. Kennedy

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John F. Kennedy

A child miseducated is a child lost.

John F. Kennedy

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

John F. Kennedy

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

Jonathan Kozol

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

Jonathan Kozol

The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?

Jonathan Kozol

If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

Jonathan Kozol

More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.

Jonathan Alter

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

Jon Secada

I'm a big believer in education, period.

Paul Valery

Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.

Paul Wellstone

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Mary McLeod Bethune

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.