Education Quotes
“In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.”
-- Gael Garcia Bernal
“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.”
-- W. E. B. Du Bois
“We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.”
-- Arthur Ashe
“I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.”
-- Jack White
“And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.”
-- Sam Donaldson
“As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.”
-- Ed Pastor
“The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.”
-- Warren Farrell
“The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.”
-- Lewis Thomas
“Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.”
-- Todd English
“There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.”
-- Marvin Hamlisch
“Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.”
-- John Bruton
“You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.”
-- Carol Burnett
“Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.”
-- Major Owens
“Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.”
-- William Glasser
“Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.”
-- James Hillman