Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace Mann

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Homer

Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

Malcolm Gladwell

If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.

Sebastian Thrun

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.

I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing.

Carine Roitfeld

I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

Howard Schultz

Customers don't always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale and they weren't enjoying it. Once they tasted ours and experienced what we call "the third place" ... a gathering place between home and work where they were treated with respect.. they found we were filling a need they didn't know they had.

Howard Schultz

Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.

Honore de Balzac

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

James D. Watson

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

James Bryant Conant

Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.

Jacques Derrida

Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.

Jacques Barzun

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

Jacques Barzun

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

J. William Fulbright

Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.

J. William Fulbright

Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the means by which Russians and Americans can come to understand each others' aspirations for peace and how the satisfactions of everyday life may be achieved.....

J. William Fulbright

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

J. William Fulbright

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

J. William Fulbright

The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope....

Iyanla Vanzant

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.

Isaac Disraeli

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Isaac Asimov

True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down.

Immanuel Kant

It is through education that all the good in the world arises.

Elton John

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

Elton John

Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.

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.

Morgan Freeman

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

Margaret Spellings

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

Margaret Spellings

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

Margaret Spellings

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

Joseph Addison

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.