Education Quotes
“If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.”
-- Patrick J. Kennedy
“Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.”
-- Bobby Vinton
“I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.”
-- Susana Martinez
“I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.”
-- Joichi Ito
“I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.”
-- Joshua Lederberg
“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.”
-- John Ruskin
“Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.”
-- Jesse Helms
“I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.”
-- Michele Bachmann
“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.”
-- Brigham Young
“I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'”
-- David Guetta
“My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.”
-- Twyla Tharp
“If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.”
-- William Glasser