Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Barlow

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

The law takes effect Oct. 1, but we will focus on education on Oct. 1.

Robert Kiyosaki

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Francois Fenelon

The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

George Clooney

Even other movies I wasn't involved with, I'd watch them edit 'cause I really enjoy watching them go through their process. It's a very economical, educational process.

By measuring things simply on a standardized test, you're never going to get a full picture of education in Florida. There's more individual attention.

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.

Glenn Frey

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

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.

Ernst Haas

Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.

Florence King

As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

Florence King

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

Flannery O'Connor

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Henry Louis Gates

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Henny Youngman

In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.

Henny Youngman

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.

Henri Frederic Amiel

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Helen Keller

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

Helen Keller

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

Helen Keller

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

Helen Keller

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.