Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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.

Jimmy Buffett

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

Jimmy Buffett

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

Jimmy Buffett

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

Jimmy Buffett

There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine.

Jimmy Buffett

When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.

Jim Rohn

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

Jim Rohn

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

George Lucas

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

John Constable

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

John Bunyan

The more he cast away, the more he had.

John Jay Chapman

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

John Hume

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

John Hume

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

John Hiatt

He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.