Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lyndon B. Johnson

Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin - with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Lyndon B. Johnson

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

Lyndon B. Johnson

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God is in the details.

Ludacris

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

Loretta Young

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

M. C. Escher

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

M. C. Escher

Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

Lord Hailsham

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Lord Chesterfield

I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Lord Chesterfield

One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

Malcolm Forbes

Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

Malcolm Bradbury

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

Major Owens

I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.

Major Owens

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Major Owens

I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

Maimonides

To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find no other device by which to teach a demonstrable truth other than by giving satisfaction to a single virtuous man while displeasing ten thousand ignoramuses - I am he who prefers to address that single man by himself, and I do not heed the blame of those many creatures.

Maimonides

A truth does not become greater by repetition.

Mahatma Gandhi

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

Mahatma Gandhi

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

Mahatma Gandhi

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

Mahatma Gandhi

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.